The National Insurance Act, 1911 / with introduction and notes by J.A. Lovat-Fraser.
- James Lovat-Fraser
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The National Insurance Act, 1911 / with introduction and notes by J.A. Lovat-Fraser. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![approved under this section by the Insurance Commis- sioners shall forthwith be registered, but till so registered shall have effect as if they had been duly registered. Admmistration of medical be?iefit. 15.—(i) Every Insurance Committee shall, for the pur- pose of administering medical benefit, make arrangements with duly qualified medical practitioners in accordance with regulations made by the Insurance Commissioners. “ Duly qualified medical practitioners ” means registered practitioners. (2) The regulations made by the Insurance Commis- sioners shall provide for the arrangements made being subject to the approval of the Insurance Commissioners and being such as to secure that insured persons shall, save as herein-after provided, receive adequate 'medical attendance and treatment from the medical practitioners with whom arrangements are so made, and shall require the adoption by every Insurance Committee of such system as will secure— [a] the preparation and publication of lists of medical practitioners who have agreed to attend and treat insured persons whose medical benefit is adminis- tered by the committee ; {b) a right on the part of any duly qualified medical practitioner who is desirous of being included in any such list as aforesaid of being so included, but, where the Insurance Commissioners, after such inquiry as may be prescribed, are satisfied that his continuance in the list would be pre- judicial to the efficiency of the medical service of the insured, they may remove his name from the list ; (c) a right on the part of any insured person of selecting, at such periods as may be prescribed, from the appropriate list the practitioner by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28077465_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
