HC Deb 21 January 1913 vol 47 c203
67. MARQUESS Of TULLIBARDINE

asked whether a doctor meeting with an accident or injury while attending to or going to or from attending a case under the National Insurance Act receives compensation for such injury?

Mr. MASTERMAN

The answer is in the negative. I am advised that a doctor on the panel is not in the position of an employé of an insurance committee, and has no more title to compensation from that committee in case of accident than a doctor attending a private patient has from that patient.

MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINE

Under the Local Government Board cannot a doctor get compensation for looking after a pauper?

Mr. MASTERMAN

I suppose in that case he is an employé of the Local Government Board. No doctor on a panel is an employé of the insurance committee.