FREEDOM FOR DOCTORS
STATE ACTION OPPOSED
HEALTH BILL DECISIONS
(10 a.m.) LONDON. May 2. After an all-day consideration of more than 250 resolutions, a special B.M.A. committee on the National Health Services Bill decided by 229 votes to 13 that the buying and selling of practices was essential for the. the freedom of the doctor and the patient. The committee decided by 214 votes to 2 against control over the doctors in the choice of location for their practices. and by 210 votes to 29 against an amendment approving of State-owned hospitals if the constitution of the regional boards were acceptable to the profession.
The meeting heavily supported the B.M.A. Council in its'decision to take anv action to secure amendments to the Bill.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22011, 3 May 1946, Page 3
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