PRACTITIONER SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 4

PRACTITIONER SERVICE

ATTITUDE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. GOVERNMENT PREPARATIONS CALLED WASTEFUL. , i.By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The statement of the Minister of Health. Mr. Armstrong, on the preparations being made to introduce the , general practitioner medical service under the Social Security Act was referred to Dr. J. P. S. Jamieson, chairman of the National Health Insurance Committee of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association by telephone to Nelson last night. Dr. i Jamieson made the following com- ! menu—"rhe Government will be well ad- . vised not to make commitments at j present for engagement of staff proI vision of premises, and so on, in prei paration for working the general prac- ; tioner service contract. ' The doctors j ? ! . c undertaking any change of this i kind iir the system of medical practice 1 for at least the continuance of the war ' and till after demobilisation. i "Those immediate preparations menI tinned by the Minister of Health are therefore unnecessary and wasteful in I present circumstances. i "Organisations having their own spe- ; cial contracts with medical practition- ! ers are recommended to continue those, ! for a likelihood of satisfactory replarei ments of present medical officers is exceedingly remote," concluded:’ Dr. Jamieson.