HC Deb 02 July 1913 vol 54 cc1884-5W
Sir JAMES YOXALL

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether persons insured under the National Insurance Act, 1911, may choose and receive medical treatment other than that practised by panel doctors, as, for example, treatment by herbalists; and, if so, whether it is within the power of a local insurance committee to forbid this?

Mr. MASTERMAN

There is no provision in the Regulations dealing specially with these cases, but, subject to the conditions therein prescribed, it is open to an insurance committee to allow insured persons to make their own arrangements, instead of receiving medical treatment from a duly qualified medical practitioner on the panel.