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HONORARY DOCTORS HOSPITAL SERVICE GOVERNMENT'S DECISION (Pit Press Associntio”..) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Doctors who are at present admitted to public hospitals as members of honorary staffs are in future to be paid as part-time employees of hospital boards, in accordance with the Government’s decision in terms of the Social Security Act.
The. culmination of a series of conferences on the subject was reached yesterday with (lie presentation of proposals for salaries and conditions to the North Canterbury Hospital Board.
Most of the discussion on the new procedure, which was described by one member as marking the crossroads in the medical service and the opening of a new era. was taken in committee, the board dealing with confidential reports. It was stated in open meeting that the additional cost to the board for these employees would be approximately £13,000 a year and that the doctors would be paid up to £l2 weekly.
The board decided not to make public at this stage the suggested scale of salaries.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 14
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