MILITARY PATIENTS
A NATIONAL OBLIGATION
After various interviews with the Prime Minister, arranged by the New Zealand Hospital Boards Association, recognition has been accorded the principle that the full cost of treating military service patients is a national responsibility. The Auckland Hospital Board was advised to this effect last night by the New Zealand Hospitals Association.
In line with this the Health Department notified the board of decisions of Cabinet to refund to hospital boards from the War Expenses Account all capital expenditure for temporary or emergency buildings, subject to the expenditure having been approved and the assets remaining Crown property. In emergency hospitals 11/ a day was made the basic rate, but • where it was higher arrangements would be made to have the full cost paid.
Advice was also received that the combined emergency committees of the municipal and counties and the hospital boards' associations had agreed to defer till after the war the proposal that hospital costs should be lifted from ratepayers and made a charge on incomes, salaries and wages.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 6
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173MILITARY PATIENTS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 6
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