§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury how many of the practitioners whose names appear on the doctors' panel for the county of London are resident outside the county of London?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI am informed by the London Insurance Committee that twenty-two of the doctors whose names appear on the London panel reside outside the boundaries of the Administrative County of London.
§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the London Insurance Committee supplied the information on which the statement, published by the Press on the 15th January, that 1,955 doctors have accepted service on the London panel, is based; will he say whether the actual number is 783; and, if not, what is the actual number?
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§ Mr. MASTERMANThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The information supplied officially by the London Insurance Committee on 8th January shows 759 doctors. The list published by them on 13th January shows 780 doctors, and subsequent additions have now brought the number to over 900.
§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will say how many doctors on the London panel in respect of the borough of Islington have resigned; and will he state the names of the practitioners who have resigned?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI find on inquiry from the London Insurance Committee that no doctor on the London panel whose name appears on the list for the borough of Islington has withdrawn.
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§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will say how many of the doctors whose names appear on the London panel have resigned?
§ Mr. MASTERMANFour doctors on the London panel have withdrawn, one of them because he is leaving London.
§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that there are, approximately, 200 medical practitioners resident in the borough of Islington, and can he say how many of the seventy-three doctors on the London panel for the borough are resident within the borough, and how many of them are also on panels for other Metropolitan boroughs or for the county of Middlesex?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI am informed by the London Insurance Committee that of the seventy-six doctors on the London panel who are prepared to attend insured persons in Islington, twenty-nine are actually resident in that borough, but some of the remainder have surgeries within the boundaries of the borough. With regard to the latter part of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him already to-day.
§ Colonel RAWSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury if a member of an approved society is taken ill at such member's employer's house, and has medical attendance from a doctor at that place, in the event of the employer sending the member home, say to another county, and such member still requiring medical attendance, whether the member is entitled to have another doctor at the member's own home?
§ Mr. MASTERMANYes, Sir, provided that the insured person notifies the insurance committee in whose area his own home is situated.