DOCTORS’ FEES
Rejection Of Demand Z P A -Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, July 15. The British Government yesterday rejected a demand from the country’s 23,000 family doctors that patients should pay consultation fees. The Health Minister, Mr Kenneth Robinson, told a delegation from the doctors' ruling body, the British Medical Association, the proposal that all patients should pay such fees was “quite unacceptable." Nearly 10.000 doctors have sent in resignations to the B.M.A. for use if a new doctors’ charter being negotiated between the association and the Government is not satisfactory. Doctors’ delegates meeting at Swansea, south Wales, last Saturday, voted for provisions for feepaying tj be included in the new charter Some said it could become a resignation issue. After ' discussing the charter proposals today, Mr Robinson told the B.M.A. delegates: “The Government could never accept your plan.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 11
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