SIR,-I am pleased to see that the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance will soon no longer require healthy patients to waste our surgery time by attending for the sole purpose of obtaining final certificates. Is it too much to hope that a similar common-sense attitude will prevail over forms F.W.8 and Mat.B. 1 (which certify on two different occasions to the same office that the same patient is in the same condition) and that they will now be combined ?-I am, etc., Warrington.

MEDICAL URNL583 young doctors are adequately trained for general practice, and established practitioners can obtain all the continuing education they require. It has not been possible in this article to do more than mention briefly some of the main problems and offer a few suggestions to solve them. The views expressed are my own, but I am grateful for the help and encouragement of many nmxembers of the College of General Practitioners throughout the country.

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