FREE DENTISTRY UNDER SOCIAL SECURITY
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WELLINGTON, June 19. Free dental freatmeut is to be given Lo ail post-priinary children and adolesceuts under ttocial Wccurity when negotialious, announced by tlie Parliamentary Labour Committee to the Labour ; oonference, are completed. Gpecialist J medical services and ambulanee bene- j lits are also iucluded in the long-range | plan. Negotiations with the dentists are for an approved range of ireatment under the contract system and it is expected to bring some 100,090 young people under treatment annually. The scheme visualises a salaried service, and until Htate dental clinics can oe establislied the services of private den tists are to be called on. The report reconiHKMided co-ordina tion of the existing ambulanee services and tlieir extension as a basis of the free scheme. Hospital boards would cither be empowered to take . over the existing schemes, or subsidise approved organisations. The report on the specialist services also recommended tlie provision of eertain" artificial aids and appliances, and stated that it was . proposed- to take advantage of the organisation for sup plying artificial limbs to ex-serviceme-i as well as the splint departments of ■ the larger public hospitals. to further this aim.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1946, Page 2
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