HEALTH SERVICE IN BRITAIN
Dissatisfaction Of Doctors
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, April 28 The Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, which represents more than 2000 British doctors in -all branches of medical practice, said in a statement issued in London that the doctors’ primary dispute with the Government was over their dissatisfaction with the present National Health Service, not over a pay rise.
For the last few months Britain’s doctors have been pressing the Government, their employer, under the National Health Service, for a 24 per cent, cost of living pay rise. Recently junior hospital staff were given a 10 per cent, interim rise and senior doctors a 5 per cent, interim rise pending a report and recommendations by a Royal Commission. The commission has been appointed to inquire into the salaries of medical men and dentists. The increase becomes effective on May 1, but a committee of the British Medical Association, with 21,000 members, has recommended that the doctors leave the health service in spite of the Government pay offer.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 16
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174HEALTH SERVICE IN BRITAIN Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 16
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