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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 6. 1969.

Structural Changes

Structural Changes

A Ministry of Social Welfare to co-ordinate all welfare agencies is one of the structural changes envisaged in the social security system by the Labour Party.

A second change was the removal of psychiatric hospitals from the control of the Department of Health.

These were discussed by Mr W. King, Labour Party spokesman on social security and Dr J. Wall, Labour candidate for Porirua at a Labour Club meeting recently.

Mr King noted NZ spent only 6.8% of its GNP on the provision of social security compared to 35.4% in West Germany and 13% in the Netherlands.

This occurred, said Mr King, because of the lack of guaranteed increase after general wage orders.

"The very first action of a Labour Government will be to move forward by turning the clock back and restore the social security system to its former efficiency", said Dr Wall.

"The system, before its present run down was the most outstanding successful compromise" he said.

"It frees the doctor to treat patients as he sees fit and takes the financial responsibility off the patient", he said.