BRITISH HEALTH SCHEME

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25389, 12 January 1948, Page 7

BRITISH HEALTH SCHEME

COMMENT ON DOCTORS’ ATTITUDE LONDON. January 9. Discussing the doctors’ vote against participation in the national ' health scheme the “Manchester Guardian suggests that the doctors should take Plebiscite of their patients to discover whether they are as perturbed as the British Medical Association, at the prospect of the doctors being

nlaced on salaries. “Most of them are quite unconcerned whether their doctor is paid by a lump sum or at so much a head, or by a mixture of the two. so long as he is fairly paid,” says the Manchester Guardian.” “They do not believe he would serve them any less fairly if he were paid a salary, just as they do not believe a clergyman would serve his flock better for being paid so much a head of his congregation instead of a yearly stipend. „ The “Manchester Guardian urges the B.M.A. and the Minister of Healui (Mr Aneurin Bevan) to endeavour to reconcile their differences and make the scheme work in the public interest. Five Killed in Street Accident.—Five persons were killed and 13 others w er ® injured when a bus struck a crowd ct shoppers queueing for a tramcar in the main street of Bargeddie, >n Lannrkshire Five of the injured are stated to be in a critical condition. —London, January 11.