§ 83. Sir PHILIP MAGNUSasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, whether he is aware that there is still a sum of money due to medical practitioners for their services during the year 1914, and that the balance so due from insurance committees has not yet been paid; and whether he can take steps to accelerate these payments?
Mr. ROBERTSI would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 27th 1479 July to the similar question then put to me; every effort is being made to overcome the difficulty arising out of the War to which I then referred.
§ 84. Mr. DIXONasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, if he will explain the reasons justifying the deductions insisted upon by the National Health Insurance Commissioners (England), in Circular I.C.L. 124, of one-third of the quarterly accounts of panel practioners, chemists, and institutions after services have been rendered and an agreement entered into with each party; why there has been no advance on account nor adjustment of the deductions of 10 percent, made in the accounts of doctors, chemists, and institutions for the year 1914; and if the Government will instruct the Commissioners to deal with the reductions owing to enlistments upon a less arbitrary and more generous basis by a temporary increase of the Treasury grant, if necessary, considering that the medical profession has undertaken the free treatment of soldiers' wives and families and other dependants, and have lost the most healthy portion of their panel?
Mr. ROBERTSI would refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on the 27th of July to questions in identical terms by the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire.