MATERNITY BENEFIT
VIEW OF NELSON DOCTORS. STATE CONTRACT OPPOSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. The Nelson division of the British Medical Association unanimously decided that the conditions and terms oi the regulations governing maternity benefits under the Social Security Act. is applying to medical men, could not be approved, and that the contract should, therefore, not be accepted. At the same time, the division desires that every assistance should bcgiven motherhood and maintains that the necessary service will best be assured when the patient is entirely free to make her own arrangements privately. This object of maternity benefit can be secured by such a system at is now in operation through the National Provident Fund, without any contract between the Government and the medical profession coming between the private relationship of patient and doc tor. The division would approve ol such a system of cash benefit to thr patient and it could be. brought ir without delay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1939, Page 9
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158MATERNITY BENEFIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1939, Page 9
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