§ Mr. Grovesasked the Minister of Health (1) what arrangements are made throughout the country under the schemes for the protection of medical practices approved by him for the accounting of fees received by acting practitioners in respect of patients of absentee practitioners; also in what areas have payments of such fees so far been made to absentee practitioners;
(2) whether he is aware of the discontent which exists amongst practitioners on active service owing to the fact that there has, in many areas, been no accounting of fees paid by their private patients during the doctors' absence on whole-time national work, and nothing is known by such doctors as to the procedure for verifying the amounts so received; and how they are being dealt with by the committees appointed for the purposes of the scheme?
§ Mr. ElliotThe payment of fees to medical practitioners by private patients is not a matter within my purview. I regret, therefore, that I am unable to give the information desired by the hon. Member.