64. Mr. WORTH INGTON-EVANSasked whether, where a panel has been constituted, it is necessary for panel doctors' assistants to be also on the panel before they are permitted to treat insured persons; and whether the locum tenens of a panel doctor must be on the panel before he can look after the panel doctor's patients?
§ Mr. MASTERMANWhere a panel is constituted it is open to a qualified assistant or locum tenens (if his principal assents), to place his name on the panel. An assistant or locum tenens whose name is not thus on the panel, may only treat insured persons on behalf of his principal when the latter is precluded by urgency of other profesional duties, absence from home, or other reasonable cause from giving personal attendance to an insured person under his care.
Mr. WORTHINGTON-EVANSWould the ordinary two or three weeks' holiday be considered a reasonable cause?
§ Mr. MASTERMANYes, it would include a case of that sort.