No hearing on doctor

Press, 24 April 1979, Page 2

No hearing on doctor

Greymouth Reporter ; Proceedings have been! dropped against a Grey-: mouth medical practitioner, [ Dr B. M. Dallas, for alleg-l edly seeing too many! patients. Yesterday Dr Dallas said; he had received a letter; from the Medical Practitioners’. Disciplinary Com-! mittee of the New Zealand! Medical Association which! said that the Minister of: Health (Mr Gair) had decided not to: proceed with! the complaint against Dr’ Dallas and that the hearing!

I set down for May 11 would 'not be held. i; Dr Dallas said he was re.l lieved'that the matter was [at last settled. ’ In June last year the com-’ ■[mittee had recommended: '[that $2707 from social secur- | ity claims paid to him be I [either recovered or set off; r against future claims. The -(committee had found that on • various days Dr Dallas had ![exceeded 60 consultations. II He appealed against this ’[and was told in November • that his appeal had been 11 allowed and that a complete ’rehearing of the case would Jbe held.