More doctors back NHS
The National Health Service is saved. That is the upshot of the doctors' second plebiscite. A majority of the profession are still against the terms of service. But the adverse majority has diminished so markedly since the February vote that the B.M.A. Council has decided to advise the doctors to co-operate. In February only 4,084 doctors said "Yes," and only 2,500 of these were general practitioners and their assistants. This time the vote was 12,799 "Yes" and 13,891 "No," and of the affirmative votes 8,639 came from doctors in general practice.