National Insurance Act : regulations made by the Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as to the administration of medical benefit ... : (presented in pursuance of Sections 65, 82 and 83 of the National Insurance Act, 1911) / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed.

Date:: 1912

Credit: National Insurance Act : regulations made by the Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as to the administration of medical benefit ... : (presented in pursuance of Sections 65, 82 and 83 of the National Insurance Act, 1911) / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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Distribution under system of payment by attend- ance. Choice of methods of obtaining treatment. far as may be adopt the procedure above-mentioned for bis selection of or assignment to a practitioner on tbe panel. (9.) As soon as may be after tbe date of revision tbe Com- mittee shall issue to each practitioner on tbe panel a copy of tbe revised list of tbe insured persons for whose treatment that practitioner is responsible. 18. Where a Committee have adopted a method of payment by attendance, tbe following provisions shall have effect: — (1.) An insured person who is not required or does not desire to make bis own arrangements for obtaining treatment, and does not desire to obtain treatment through an approved institution as his medical benefit shall be entitled, on production to a prac- titioner on the panel of such voucher or other document as the Commissioners may approve for the purpose, to obtain treatment from that practitioner subject to the consent of the practitioner, who shall signify his consent by endorsing the voucher or other document in such manner as the Commissioners shall require. (2.) Every practitioner shall upon his acceptance of an insured person for treatment give notice to the Committee upon a form to be provided by the Committee for the purpose. (3.) An insured person who has selected and been accepted by a practitioner in the manner above-mentioned shall be deemed to have selected that practitioner, and shall be entitled, upon production to the practitioner if he so requires of the said voucher or other document, to treatment from him, during the year, and shall not during the year be entitled, while in the area within which that practitioner has agreed to attend him, to obtain treatment from any other practitioner on the panel as part of his medical benefit. (4.) Any insured person who has selected a practitioner shall be entitled at any time after the expiration of the year on produc- tion of the voucher or other document as aforesaid, to obtain treat- ment from that practitioner or from any other practitioner on the panel who is willing to accept him and shall, upon the endorse- ment by the practitioner of his voucher or other document be deemed to have selected and been accepted by that practitioner for the currency of the revised medical list. (5.) Where any insured person gives notice to the Committee that he is unable to obtain treatment from a practitioner on the panel the Committee shall provide for his assignment to a practi- tioner on the panel so far as practicable under arrangements made by practitioners on the panel. 19.—(1.) Every insured person shall before the date indicated in the announcement made by the Committee in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations (a) if he is required, or desires, to make his own arrangements for obtaining treatment, including medicines and appliances, fill up the appropriate form and send it to the Committee; (b) if he desires, and is entitled, to obtain treatment, in- cluding medicines and appliances, through an approved institution, fill up the appropriate form and send or present it to the institution.

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