HOSPITAL TREATMENT
CHOICE FOR PATIENTS NO AREA RESTRICTIONS BAY OF PLENTY PROTEST The fact that patients might now enter a hospital outside their own hospital board district if they chose was strongly commented on by the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board at' a meeting in Whakatane. It was stated that the Government had repealed the legislation which made it necessary for admissions to outside hospitals to be approved by the home board except In eases of emergency.
Members said the position was most unfair to small boards. It would now be good business for a city hospital to keep the beds for country patients, who would be paid for by their own institutions on a higher scale, said the chairman, Mr. J. W. Sumner. It would be advisable to protest to the Hospital Boards’ Association.
The secretary, MivF. Prideaux, said the estimates had already been badly upset, but this would make the position worse. The board had estimated that payments to other boards would cost £I2OO for the year, but already in the first six months it had paid £OIO and owed £BSO.
A motion of protest was carried.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 5
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189HOSPITAL TREATMENT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 5
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