HOSPITAL FINANCE
Social Security Payment (Special) WELLINGTON, June 28. Regulations gazetted last week give effect to the undertaking in the Budget that payment from the Social Security Fund to hospitals in respect of inpatients would be increased from 6/to 9/- a day. The Minister of Health, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, said that the increase would operate as from April 1, 1943, and that hospital boards should amend the demands on local authorities in order that the reduction might be passed on to the ratepayers. So far as patients in private hospitals were concerned, the increased amount would be deducted from their accounts beginning from the first of next month, but patients who had been discharged from private hospitals between April 1 and June 30 could apply to the medical officer of health of their district for the additional amount of 3/- a day to which they were now entitled. Forms for this purpose would shortly be available.
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Southland Times, Issue 25692, 29 June 1943, Page 4
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