DOCTORS COMING INTO LINE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3720, 4 January 1913, Page 7

DOCTORS COMING INTO LINE.

SOAIE 5300 ACCEPT SERVICE

UNDER THE ACT.

CLOSING OF PANELS EXTENDED TILL TO-DAY.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT]

LONDON, Jan. 2,

At least eight thousand doctors are required to work the Act. About 5300 have accepted service. The closing of the panels has'been extended to Saturday. In Wales 937 doctors announce that they will treat patients at 8s 6d. The Welsh Commissioners have intimated that the persons insured must choose panel doctors. The majority of Scottish panels work on a competitive basis, Mr Lloyd George (Chancellor of the Exchequer and father of the insurance scheme), addressing the Auxiliary Advisory Committee., said that while the public regarded the revised terms to the doctors as generous, the doctors' attitude was a tacit admission that the terms fairly met the circumstances. The doctor had lately shifted the 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 panels were inadequate.

10,000 DOCTORS AVAILABLE. CH AN CEL LOR - CLAIALS A VICTORY. (Received Jan. 3. 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. Air Lloyd-George states that 10,000 doctors have agreed to serve under the Act and that panels are possible over seven-eighths of the country.