General Medical Practice in England and Wales

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Abstract
IN 1965 the British Medical Guild, an organization developed by the British Medical Association, collected undated resignations of some 18,000 British general practitioners — the vast majority of all such practitioners working within the structure of the English National Health Service. These resignations were used to increase the strength of the general practitioners' position in negotiations with the Government for a new structure and system of remuneration for general practice. Although the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, in its 1966 report, concluded that the data available to them do "not establish that medical and dental earnings are as . . .