HC Deb 29 April 1941 vol 371 cc363-4W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health under what Regulation made under the National Health Insurance Acts or any other Statute it is provided that insurance committees and panel committees are authorised or empowered to enter into an agreement for making arrangements for a rota of doctors to be set up for the purpose of providing medical attention for insured persons?

Mr. E. Brown:

Under Article 3 of the National Health Insurance (Medical Benefit) Regulations, 1936, the terms of service (as set out in paragraph 11 of Part I of the First Schedule to those Regulations) permit an insurance practitioner to provide treatment by deputy where he is prevented by urgency of other professional duties, temporary absence from home or other reasonable cause from giving treatment personally. The setting up of a rota of available practitioners may be a convenient administrative arrangement for facilitating the working of this provision.