THE PANEL DISPUTE.
DOCTORS RESIGNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Reuter’s Telegram*. (Received October 22, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. Tt is estimated that 120,000 panel doctors will resign, representing 80 per cent of the total. Sir W. JoynsonHicks, Minister of Health, hints that the Government may establish a new medical service for the poorer classes if the doctors cease work at the New Year. While hoping that the doctors will not smash the system, the Minister is confident that he will he able to organise a substitute. Hundreds of doctors, ©speed ally in the Midlands, have already handed in their resignations. The doctors point out that the resignations leave only about 200 practitioners available for the State service, and that a.s these are mostly in seaside and country towns there will be a serious shortage of doctors in the great industrial een-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 1
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