SOCIAL SECURITY
MEDICAL BENEFITS OPERATION OF SCHEME. PROVISIONS PUBLISHED IN GAZETTE. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. ) Two notices appearing in last night’s) Gazetit are of interest as affecting I medical benefits under the Social Se- ■ curity Act. One of these fixes the; fifteenth day of each calendar month! as from tomorrow, as an accounting ; period for the purpose of computing ■ the amounts payable from the Social j Security Fund to medical practitioners j by way of capitation fees. The second i notice states that medical benefits in' accordance with the Act will bo avail-1 able throughout New Zealand on and. after Saturday. GISBORNE DOCTORS. WILL NOT ENTER INTO CONTRACTS. <By Telegraph—Press Association.) j GISBORNE, Ftbruary 27. ■ A statement issued today and signed by every medical practitioner in Gis-| borne, states that, pending elucidation of certain vital points in the schemed none of the doctors in Gisborne will j enter into contracts under the Gov-; ernment’s general practitioner service WILL MOT ACCEPT SERVICE. I ATTITUDE OF MANAWATU DOCTORS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ February 27. Al a recent meeting of the Manawatu Division of the British Medical Association, attended by the great ma-| jorily of doctors from the Palmerston; North. Feilding. Levin. Foxton and : Otaki districts, it was unanimously decided net to accept service under the . general practitioner scheme, said till. president of the division, Mr C. King, in an interview.
"In their united and unwavering opposition to the Government plan, the doctors have been guided solely by their recognition of the fact that this plan of so-called free medical service' would result in a definite lowering of the standard of medical care and treatment,” said Mi - King. "That, is all there is to it.
"The General Practitioner Scheme has been sketched out without pretence at collaboration with any recognised medical authority, and any charge of refusal to co-operate must in all honesty be laid at the door of the Government advisers.
"Further. Government circles have been making much of the favourable reception of the maternity service by the profession, obviously ignoring the fact that, as originally evolved by the Government, the maternity set vice was a complete failure in its rejection by the doctors. It should be clearly understood that a maternity service that would work at all was arrived at only after the elimination of Dr. McMillan's ideas and an amendment of the Act to givt effect to stipulations and suggestions made by the B.M.A.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 8
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