Monday, 8 December 1958
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
asked the Minister of Health whether he will sanction the use of Form E.C.10A by general practitioners in England and Wales to enable them to obtain supplies of dressings for emergency use in...
asked the Minister of Health if he will state the national percentage of those who have suffered from bronchitis during the past ten years; and if he will give the same figures for the city of...
asked the Minister of Health if he will state the total average amounts paid to medical men under the merit scheme since it was put into operation in Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Salford, and...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has given further consideraiton to the proposals which have been made to him regarding the extension of chiropody services for old people; and whether he...
asked the Minister of Health when he expects to receive the report of the Cranbrook Committee on Maternity Services; and when it will be published.
asked the Minister of Health what additional local authority expenditure on mental health and welfare services has been approved for 1959–60 and 1960–61.
asked the Minister of Health if he will take steps to assume the financial responsibility for cancer research.
asked the Minister of Health what is the progress of the follow-up of post-leucotomy cases which was initiated by his Department in 1956.
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether he is satisfied with the adequacy of the machinery in regard to the approval of mental health research; in...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what new steps he is taking to tackle the disease of cancer; how much he has spent from public funds on research...
asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Lord President of the Council, whether he is satisfied with the amount of funds at present available for medical research; and what action he...
asked the Minister of Health if he considered the suggestions for the modernisation of the hospitals and services made to him during his visit to the City of Stoke-on-Trent; and what action has...
asked the Minister of Health whether he has yet reached a decision with regard to the future of Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton.
asked the Minister of Health if he has considered the report, sent to him by the honourable Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, of a clinical experiment in which mentally defective children in...
asked the Minister of Health what he intends to do to relieve the shortage of hospital accommodation in East Kent.
asked the Minister of Health the average waiting period for entry to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital of patients needing an operation.
Mr. Wells: asked the Minister of Health if he has considered the complaints made at the annual general meeting of the Rochester and Chatham Division of the British Medical Association concerning...
asked the Minister of Health if he will make a statement on the present position regarding time-expired senior registrars, indicating what proportion have been recommended for and have received...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the practice of relating the salaries of nursing and other staff in mental hospitals to the number of occupied beds may penalise those hospitals...
asked the Minister of Health whether a place in a South Wales hospital has now been found for Royston David Thornhill of Rampton Hospital.
asked the Minister of Health what steps he has taken, since his letter to the Manchester Regional Hospital Board last July, to obtain suitable employment for Mr. A. H. Barber; and how many posts...
asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he is aware that, owing to the shortage of maternity beds in Stoke-on-Trent, many mothers are discharged from hospital two or three days after their...
asked the Minister of Health the additional allocations to each regional hospital board of the extra £1,750,000 for capital expenditure before 31st March, 1959.
asked the Minister of Health, in view of the decision in the High Court on the illegal detention of Miss Kathleen Rutty, which resulted in her discharge as a mental defective, and the subsequent...
asked the Minister of Health how long Miss Kathleen Rutty was detained as a mental defective; what money was given to her on discharge; and what compensation has since been paid to her.
asked the Minister of Health what was the daily average during 1957 of patients employed in the laundry at Cane Hill Mental Hospital; what were the maximum weekly rates of payment to male and...
asked the Minister of Health what was the cause of the delay by the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board in replying to his request, made over nine months ago, for further information concerning...
asked the Minister of Health how many patients in Birmingham are awaiting operations at all hospitals; in view of the fact that additional operating theatre facilities at Little Bromwich...
asked the Minister of Health when the recommendations of the University Grants Committee, received by him on 18th February, regarding the proposed new dental hospital in Birmingham, were...
asked the Minister of Health what proposals he has received from the governors of Charing Cross Hospital concerning the size of the teaching hospital which it is proposed to establish in Fulham;...
asked the Minister of Health what is the latest available figure for those waiting for admission to hospital; and how this compares with twelve months previously.
asked the Minister of Health if he will give the approximate number of persons waiting for hospital beds in the Northern Region; and how many of these have been waiting for three months, six...
(by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Air why demonstrators were able to enter upon the Royal Air Force Station at North Pickenham on 6th to 7th December, hindering the workmen...
May I ask, Mr. Speaker, whether the Foreign Secretary has asked permission to answer Question No. 53?
3.41 p.m.
Lace Industry (Scientific Research Levy) Order, 1958, [draft laid before the House 20th November] approved.—[Mr. J. Rodgers.]
10.25 p.m.
10.32 p.m.
Resolution reported,That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the law with respect to the determination of questions requiring decision for the purposes of the Family...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Hughes-Young.]
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