§ 59. Sir HENRY CRAIKasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the nurses of a, nursing institution in London, being insured persons, who are sent in the course of their employment to different parts of the Kingdom or abroad, are entitled to medical benefit in any part of the Kingdom, and to sickness benefit upon 29 the certificate of any qualified doctor wherever the sickness may occur?
§ Mr. MASTERMANAs I have stated on many previous occasions, arrangements are made under the Medical Regulations whereby insured persons who change their residence within the year are able to obtain medical benefit from a practitioner on the panel of the area into which they move, on giving notice to the insurance committee for that area. With regard to the second part of the hon. Member's question, the acceptance or otherwise of a certificate of any particular medical practitioner so as to enable an insured person to obtain sickness benefit, is a question for that person's approved society, or, in the case of a deposit contributor, of the insurance committee, to decide.
§ Mr. RUPERT GWYNNEWill a second ticket be issued to insured persons?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI do not think any second ticket is or will be required in any case. Insurance committees and friendly societies will have to register the names.
§ Mr. RUPERT GWYNNEHow is the doctor to get the fees?
§ Sir H. CRAIKIn the case of those persons who go to another place, will the certificate of the medical practitioner be accepted, and, if not, do they run the risk of losing the whole of their benefits under the Act?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe medical certificate is to show they are sick. If they are sick and a certificate is refused, they have a right to appeal to the Commissioners in order to show that they were sick.