MOUNTING TOTAL OF BRITAIN’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE FUND
Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 17. As the result of pressure by the British Medical Association, rural doctors in the National Health Service are to be given an increase of more than 50 per cent, in their mileage payments. This will be paid in March and the new rates will be retrospective to July 5. 1948. when the service commenced to operate. The additional cost will amount to about £500,000 a year. This, together with the £200,000 which the doctors themselves decided should be diverted to their mileage fund, means that the total fund has been increased by £700,000 and will now amounl to £2.000.000 a year. The sum of £200.000 was about naif of the Inducement Fund established to help doctors in special difficulties. It was agreed last month by the BMA that hardships imposed upon rural .doctors were so great that they must be given immediate assistance. The Minister of Health, Mr Aneurin Bevan, in a letter to the BMA, s a;d he was impressed by the real difficulties confronting rural practitioners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26982, 18 January 1949, Page 5
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