Insurance levy could fund medical centres

Could additional operational fund improve the performance of health centres' underfunded public health programmes? Learning from the Sleman district experience

Background Preventive and promotive programmes in government health centres are commonly underfunded. Aside from that, the central government allocates money based on vertical programmes category. To put public health programs as a high priority, the government decided to make an additional special allocation so that government health centres may improve their performance in the outcomes of und...

Bengal Medical Retiring Fund

We republish, amongst oar extracts, a letter signed "Fiat Justitia," upon tlie subject of the Medical Ketiring Fund in Bengal. The writer complains of the Fund as a "source of incessant irritation to a great number of subscribers," and blames the Government for inaction in their behoof. He wishes the flame to be fanned and fed, " in order that the fund may be placed upon a better footing." We m...

Medical Retiring Fund

Medical Retiring Fund

present conditions of our service, and which even in the days of seniority was far from successful in its objects. Now that promotion, except partially to the administrative grades, is not regulated by seniority, all excuse for forcing their subscriptions from the members is at an end ; and it surely is not the part of a wise and just government to demand the pound of flesh from the subscribers...

Regional postgraduate medical centres.

We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...