The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke.

  • Clarke, Orme (Orme Bigland)
Date:
1913
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Credit: The National Insurance Act 1911 : being a treatise on the scheme of national health insurance and insurance against unemployment created by that Act, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes, tables, and examples / by Orme Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to treat any given person. Insurance Committees will pre- pare and publish lists of doctors who have agreed to attend and treat insured persons. Any doctor has a right to have his name included on the list, and no doctor’s name may be removed from the list except after an inquiry. Persons whose income exceeds a limit to be fixed by the Committee may be required to make their own arrangements for receiv- ing medical attendance and treatment instead of being dealt with under the arrangements made between the Committees and the doctors. Similar arrangements are to be made for the supply of drugs. Sec. 15. Sanatorium Benefit.—This benefit consists of institutional and domiciliary treatment for insured persons suffering from tuberculosis or such other diseases as the Local Government Board with the approval of the Treasury may appoint. Sec. 8 (1) G). The Benefit will be administered by the Insurance Com- mittees. Sect. 14. The treatment may be institutional or given in the patient’s own home. Except that Poor Law authorities are completely excluded, any institutions may be made use of, and any persons or Local Authorities may give the treatment, 'provided that, in the case of institutional treatment, the institutions, and, in the case of domiciliary treatment, the manner in which the treatment is given, are approved by the Local Government Board. Insured persons are not entitled to this benefit as a right: they must be recom- mended by the Insurance Committee before they receive it. Sec. 16. Insured persons will receive this benefit throughout life, and the benefit will not be suspended until their arrears amount to more than twenty-six weekly contributions a year on average. Sec. 8. Provision is made in the Act for dealing with a sum of £1,500,000 which is made available by the Finance Act, 1911, for the provision of sanatoria. The cost of these sanatoria will come out of that sum and out of the funds of Local Authorities, &c. Sec. 64.