Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Hospitals – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 February 1964.
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that everybody will be very glad to hear his reply to the first part of the Question? Can he say whether this appointment is to the group as a whole or to this particular hospital only? If it is to the former, roughly how much of his time will this consultant be expected to devote to the hospital, where there have been so many difficulties, as the hon. Gentleman knows. Secondly, what is the adequate, or the ideal, number of specially trained nurses to cope with this number of aged patients?