DOCTORS’ ULTIMATUM
NATIONAL HEALTH SCHEME (11 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 17, Four hundred B.M.A. delegates representing doctors from all parts of Britain unanimously agreed that the B.M.A. would not participate in the nationalised healtli service unless the Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, agreed to some changes. They decided to establish a fund to help doctors who will lose income derived from the present system of health insurance when the new health service starts in the summer.
Meanwhile, strong Communist forces are reported to be encircling Tsinan, the provincial capital of Shantung.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22589, 18 March 1948, Page 5
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