Doctors’ Fees
Sir,—Your report on Saturday about doctors increasing their fees requires investigation. One part 1 do not like is 5s for cash or 7s 6d if on account. Why do doctors wish to give a discount for cash? The Inland Revenue Department would have no idea how much a doctor took in cash. •There would not. be many bad debtors, but as many doctors would say, rightly or wrongly, that they did not charge Social Security beneficiaries, lit would be impossible for the
department to say how much a doctor received in cash. Doctors should issue an account and upon payment issue a numbered receipt. Yours, NUMBER NINE. September 2'2, 1964. [Dr. A. C. Standston, newspaper liaison officer of the British Medical Association, Canterbury Division, said: “I would like to make it clear that the 2s 6d rebate for cash seems to be a local custom with the doctors in the New Brighton area only. Your correspondent’s insinuation that a cash transaction is synonymous with evasion is plainly ridiculous, and would be resented not only by doctors but by hundreds of tradesmen throughout, the country, who are constanly accepting small amounts of cash for services or goods.”]
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30558, 29 September 1964, Page 16
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