Health Minister Walter Elliot told the House of Commons today that he was consulting with Home Secretary Sir John Anderson and the General Medical Council on the question of admitting to the British medical register some refugee doctors “of approved eminence and qualifications.”
Elliot’s statement was in reply to a question by Morris Jones, who drew attention to the drain of war services upon doctors and the fact that civilian doctors in some districts were overworked. Elliot said the question of providing refugee physicians with facilities to study for British qualification with a view to their practicing in Britain and the Dominions was also being discussed.
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