The Labour Party's National Executive are expressing their view of
the whole question in a pamphlet. Their recommendation is. roughly that the conditions of panel practice should be improved from the patient's point of view, and that a free choice of doctors should be given, in return for which the present amount of the capitation fee, 9s. 0d., should be retained. The Labour Party's National Executive state that they have satisfied themselves that the fmancial assets of the National Health Insurance would permit of this scheme. If this is really so, it would appear that there is something to be said for a solution along these lines. But, as Sir William Joynson-Hicks has repeatedly stated,, the whole question of National Health Insurance is ripe for review. The essential thing seems to be to arrive at some agree- ment in order that the work can be carried on for the next contracted period (either three or five years), so that a Royal Commission may have time to investigate the whole situation. *
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