MEDICAL BENEFITS
LATEST LEGISLATION ATTITUDE OF DOCTORS I Dr. J. P. S. Jamieson, chairman of, the National Health Insurance Comj mittee ol the British Medical Association, to-day made the following com-j | ment on the latest legislation relating; 1 to medical benefits : | The amendments in Finance Bill I I <No. 4) to the clauses of the Social! I Security Act relating to General Prac- i titioner Service will be resisted by the medical profession as firmly as the re--1 pealed clauses of the Act itself. The i amendments in no respect diminish the danger of degradation of medical work , against which the Association has j fought consistently. “It is evident that the amendments j are designed to enlist the pressure of | individual patients and organisations on I individual doctors in order to ‘white- j ant’ the resistance of the Association : I against bureaucracy and socialisation. This will not succeed. ‘A still worse feature is that the amendments, if they were effective, would result in seriously reducing the war effort of the profession.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 6 December 1940, Page 2
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