DOCTORS COMPLAIN
BRITAIN’S HEALTH SERVICE PAYMENTS UNSATISFACTORY NZPA Special Correspondent LONDON Dec. 16. Dr Stuart Laidlaw, medical officer of health foi the Corporation of Glasgow. told a meeting in Glasgow that busy doctors in his, district who had already reached the maximum number of 4000 patients permitted under the national health scheme were finding it difficult to give patients individual attention bedbuse of the tremendous demands being made upon their services. The average doctor’s list in Glasgow numbered 1700 patients, which, after the deduction of expenses, gave a remuneration of £IOOO a year. In his opinion, this was insufficient for the work the doctors had to do.
It was already evident that the capitation system of remuneration would have to be adjusted, particularly in the case of doctors in scattered rural areas. In his opinion, many years must pass and many adjustments would have to be made before the national health service would run smoothly, economically, and satisfactorily.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26958, 18 December 1948, Page 8
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