“…It seems to the Government to be fundamental that in Health Centre practice the grouped doctors working together in a Centre should not be in competition for patients and that in this form of practice remuneration on a capitation system would be inappropriate. They therefore propose that doctors practising in Health Centres shall be remunerated by salaries or on some basis, other than that of capitation fees, and they will be ready to discuss with the medical profession the precise system that should be adopted and the salary scales that would be appropriate. …”

“…Normally, the remuneration of a doctor in separate practice will be based (as it is now in National Health Insurance) on a capitation system, depending on the number of patients whose care he undertakes — the maximum number of patients whose care any one doctor ought to undertake being, of course, suitably regulated. …”

“…Doctors engaged in Health Centres will be remunerated by salary or the equivalent ; doctors in separate practice normally by capitation fee. In some cases — e.g. grouped pracdce not based on a Health Centre — remuneration by salary or the equivalent could be arranged if the doctors concerned so desired. …”

“…The abolition would involve great practical difficulty and is not essential to the working of the new service, and the Government intend to discuss the whole matter further with the profession, including any measures which may be needed to prevent the operation of the new public service from itself increasing the capital value of an individual practice, and therefore also the compensation which may later have to be paid. …”