DEATH CERTIFICATE FEES
PAYMENT TO RESIDENT DOCTORS [From Our Own Parliamentary Reporter.] Wellington, This Day. “Is it a usual practice for resident doctors at public hospitals to charge a fee for issuing death certificates on the death of patients in public hospitals?” asked Mr W. S. Goosman (National, Waikato) in an urgent question to the Health Minister, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, in the House. Replying, the Minister said that it was not the practice to make a charge for a death certificate, and he understood that in law it was not right to do so, but the practice had grown up of making a charge where a death certificate was required by an insurance company or for any other such purpose. The question of whether a doctor who was a paid servant of a hospital board should himself be entitled to a fee for a certificate or whether the fee should go to the hospital board was one for decision of the hospital board concerned and the practice varied throughout the Dominion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 2
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