THE INSURANCE ACT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 3 January 1913, Page 5

THE INSURANCE ACT.

("Received 8.10 a.m.)

London, January 2. At least 8000 doctors are required to work the Act.

About 5300 have accepted service. The closing panels have been extended to Saturday.

Nine hundred and thirty-seven doctors in Wales have joined £he panels. Outside doctors announce that they will treat the patients at 8s 6d. The Welsh Commissioners have intimated that the insureds must choose panel doctors. A majority of the Scottish panels will work on a competitive basis. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, January 2. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing the Auxiliary Advisory Committee, said while the public regarded the revised terms to doctors as generous, the doctors’ attitude was tacit admission that the terms fairly met the circumstances The doctors had latterly shifted controversy from the question of remuneration to something called “lay” control. No other profession objected to administrative control by a “lay” body responsible for its payment. He instanced the legal and teaching professions, and added that arrangements were being made to deal with the areas where the panels were inadequate.