§ 69. Mr. O'GRADYasked whether, having regard to the scarcity of qualified doctors owing to the War, senior students in their final year will be allowed to sign medical insurance certificates on behalf of their principals?
Mr. ROBERTSI am afraid that certificates of incapacity would be of little value-to approved societies if the responsibility for giving them were in any way divorced from the responsibility for diagnosis, and this latter responsibility is one which, as my hon. Friend is no doubt aware, a medical practitioner is professionally debarred from delegating to, or sharing with, an unqualified man.