§ Sir PHILIP MAGNUSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of a doctor having joined a list or panel on the understanding that he contracts to attend only a limited number of insured persons, he may be required later on, as a condition of his remaining on the list or panel, to attend such additional number of insured persons as may be allotted to him as his share of the residue of persons to whom no doctor has been previously assigned?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe distribution of insured persons who have not been assigned to any doctor is, as the hon. Member is aware, to be carried out so far as practicable under arrangements made by the doctors on the panel. If such arrangements allow of a doctor attending only a limited number of patients, there is no reason why it should be made a condition of his remaining on the panel that he should attend an additional number of insured persons, so long as the arrangements are in force.
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§ Mr. YERBURGHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether in the case of a medical man who is not on the panel, but is called in to attend an insured person, the medical certificate given will enable such insured person to obtain sickness benefit and medicine?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI have nothing to add to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Glasgow and Aberdeen University on the 4th instant, and to several other recent answers to the same effect.