§ Mr. Grovesasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that medical men, who were members of medical boards during the last war, and in some cases have been on pensions medical boards subsequently, have been refused work on recruiting medical boards, although other medical men without such experience, and not necessarily resident in the district where the boards are assembled, have been appointed and allowed to attend every session; and whether he will remedy this unsatisfactory 1182W state of things, which is causing grave dissatisfaction amongst the medical profession?
§ Mr. E. BrownAs stated in reply to a Question put by the hon. Member on 27th July, 1939, members of medical boards are drawn from panels consisting of practitioners whose names are supplied by the British Medical Association. The work of the boards is distributed as evenly as practicable amongst the members of the panels. I am not aware of any grave dissatisfaction with these arrangements amongst the medical profession, and I do not think that it would be in the public interest to alter them.