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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    (2.) The Committee shall notify to any insured person applying to be allowed to make his own arrangements their consent 01 refusal as the case may be. (3.) Where an application has been received by an approved institution, that institution shall within one week notify the acceptance or rejection of the application to the Committee on the appropriate place on the form of application, and in the case of rejection the Committee shall as soon as may be thereafter notify that rejection to the applicant. 20. —(1.) The Committee shall prepare a list of those persons Preparation who have been accepted by each approved institution, and a list of lists. of persons required or allowed to make their own arrangements for obtaining treatment, and shall furnish each approved institution with a copy of its appropriate list. (2.) Any list so prepared shall, subject as provided in these Regulations, have effect until the commencement of the medical year succeeding that for which it is prepared. 21. —(1.) Any insured person who desires to obtain treatment Revision of by any of the methods referred to in these Regulations, other *ists* than that which he adopted in the previous year, shall make application to the Committee not later than one month before the date of revision, and any insured person not making such an application shall be deemed to have applied to obtain treatment in the same manner as in the previous year. (2.) Any practitioner desiring to withdraw from the panel shall give to the Committee notice to that effect not later than one month before the date of revision and his name shall thereupon be removed from the medical list. (3.) With regard to any person making application to obtain treatment by any method other than that which he adopted in the previous year, the Committee shall so far as may be adopt the procedure provided by these Regulations for enabling an insured person to select his method of treatment. 22. Where an insured person who has elected to receive treat- Insured ment under the arrangements made by the Committee with person practitioners on the panel changes his residence to the area of another Committee, he shall upon arriving in that area give year notice to the last-mentioned Committee, and thereupon that Committee shall make arrangements whereby he can receive treatment including drugs and appliances in their area, and such adjustment shall be made between the two Committees as is equitable in the circumstances, regard being had to the propor- tion of the year spent by the insured person in the area of each of the Committees respectively, and the arrangements made by each of the Committees with the practitioners on the panel in their respective areas shall be so adjusted as to conform with the adjustments so made. 23. —(1.) If a practitioner, other than a practitioner whose Practitioner name has been removed from the medical list in force in the area applying of any Committee in the United Kingdom by the Commis- dur*n§ sioners, makes application to the Committee during the year, the year' Committee shall include him in the medical list.