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
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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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    Approval of institutions. Publication of medical list. 15. —(1.) The Board of Management or other governing authority of, or person administering, any institution may apply to the Committee to approve the institution for the purposes of Section 15 (4) of the Act. (2.) Upon any such application being made the Committee shall send to the Commissioners such particulars of the institution as the Commissioners may require, and shall state whether the Committee propose to approve that institution and the reasons for the course of action proposed to be adopted, and, if the Com- mittee and the Commissioners approve the institution, it shall be approved for the purposes of the Section aforesaid for the period specified in the approval: Provided that i. no institution shall be approved unless the Committee are satisfied that— (а) the treatment given by the institution is adequate, and (б) every insured person obtaining treatment there- under is entitled to determine his arrange- ment with that institution, upon giving reasonable notice of his intention so to do, at the expiration of the currency of the , medical list, without thereby incurring any pecuniary loss or other penalty; and ii. every institution shall as a condition of approval from time to time furnish such accounts and returns as the Commissioners, or the Committee with the consent of the Commissioners, may require, iii. every institution shall be conducted in such a manner as to comply with any conditions as to the nature, quality and extent of the treatment provided which by reason of any scheme for the distribution of a Parliamentary grant must be complied with in the case of treatment provided otherwise than through the institution as a condition of the payment of that grant. (3.) The Committee may contribute, towards the expenses of the treatment furnished by any approved institution to an insured person who elects to obtain treatment through it, an amount calculated and paid in such manner as is hereinafter in these Regulations provided. 16. Where the Commissioners have approved the arrangements made by the Committee in pursuance of these Regulations, the Committee shall as soon as may be publish in any one or more newspapers circulating in the County an announcement containing particulars of the arrangements made by the Committee, including a statement of the places where a copy of the medical list and of a list of approved institutions may be seen, and forms of applica- tion obtained, by insured persons, a statement as to the income limit, if any, and any other particulars which the Committee think proper, including such particulars as are necessary to bring to the notice of insured persons their right to select a practitioner on the panel and their rights with respect to obtaining treatment in some other manner.