STATE HEALTH PLANS
FULL SERVICE NEEDED
DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS
(!>,„■ Press AssooiiUion.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, this- day. The importance of the simultaneous introduction of the medical -practitioner and hospital benefit schemes provided under the Social Security Act was emphasised by the chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board. Mr. P. E. Stainton, at a meeting ol the board yesterday.
The Government said Mr. Stainton, had been unable to reach an agreement with the medical prolession. but it was anxious to begin the hospital benefit scheme. That would mean absolute chaos in the hospital administration.
•If there was a hospital benefit scheme and no medical prictitior.er service, the public would be entitle-' to go direct to the hospital for free service instead of paying the c'octor's fee first. Hospital ooards would be unable to give the tremendous service required and would fall very low in the public opinion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 14
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