HC Deb 02 December 1941 vol 376 cc1022-3W
Mr. Groves

asked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the recommendation to local authorities and hospitals, generally, contained in Circular 2323, that British doctors on their staffs may be released and foreign practitioners employed in their stead, he will give an undertaking that after the war the British doctors will be reinstated?

Mr. E. Brown

The position of the British doctors referred to is safeguarded by the fact that the Defence Regulation under which practitioners with foreign qualifications are registered in the Medical Register will cease to operate when the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, expires after the war.