SOCIAL SECURITY EXTENSIONS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 4

SOCIAL SECURITY EXTENSIONS

DENTAL TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN SPECIALIST AJID AMBULANCS SERVICES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June WFree dental treatment is to be givw to all post -primary - children w® adolescents under Social Secuw when negotiations announced by Parliamentary Labour Committee w the Labour Party conference are com* pleted. Specialist medical services and ambulance benefits are also included in the long-range plan. . , Negotiations with dentists are w an approved range of treatment unaej a contract system which is expected to bring some 100,000 young peop’® under treatment annually. .. The scheme visualises a salartf® service, and until State dental clini<3 can be established the services of pn« vate dentists are to be called on. -The report also recommended tnj co-ordination of existing ambulance services and their extension as basis of a free scheme. Hospital boards would be either empowered to take over existing schemes or to suo* sidise approved organisations. The report on specialist servicg also recommended the provision 01 certain artificial aids and appliances, and stated that it was proposed to take advantage of the orgnisation for the supply of artificial limbs to former servicemen, as well as tM splint departments of the larger public hospitals, to further this aim.