ANNUAL SALARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 2

ANNUAL SALARY.

VISITING MEDICAL STAFF. WELLINGTON DECISION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. May 2. The principle of the visiting medical staff being paid on the basis of an annual salary scale was reaffirmed by the Wellington Hospital Board tonight. and the proposed agreement for the future medical staffing of the hospital recommended by the special committee which consisted of board members and the medical staff was approved. The chairman (Mr J. Glover) sa-‘d the scheme was a splendid thing for the hospital, and patients, and would do justice to those doctors who had given their services in an honorary capacity for so many years. The scale recommended by the committee ranges from £SOO a year to senior physicians to consulting cardiologists and dermatologists at £l5O a year. Mr A. H. Carman, moving an amendment, said he was unable to agree to the proposed salaries, especially when it was considered the medical profession was declining to enter into a contract with the Government in connection with the generaL practitioner arrangement for social security He moved that the salaries of the part-time visiting staff be on a per session-basis as follows: Thirty shillings per session for seniors and 20s per session for juniors. This would average out at £234 a year for seniors for a nine-hour week and £156 a year for juniors, which equalled on a 40hour week more than £IOOO a year for seniors. The amendment was defeated. Mrs Knox Gilmer said they had greatly appreciated the co-operation of iffie medical men on the committee. The work took nearly two years. There were many meetings and all. aspects of various questions -were thoroughly thrashed out. The committee was asking the board to accept the proposals, and the basis accepted for Wellington might lie the basis for the whole of New Zealand and should be submitted to the Department of Health by the board.