§ 71. Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Minister of Health whether the General Nursing Council for England and Wales has submitted for his consideration a rule, framed in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(2, a) of The Nurses Registration Act, 1919, under which Parliament granted to nurses entering the nursing profession the right to a prescribed training; whether he approves of the rule as submitted or what modifications, if any, he proposes so that persons desiring to be trained as nurses may know what they are required to learn before entering an approved institution for training; and whether, seeing that the Nurses Registration Act has now been in force for over three years, and that effect has not yet been given to this principle which incorporates an important right under the Act, he is prepared to sign a 464 rule with the least possible delay as the nurses' State examination has already been twice deferred, from 1923 to 1924 and from 1924 to 1925, pending the approval of the syllabus of prescribed training?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe General Nursing Council have submitted an examination syllabus for the general part of the Register, which I have undertaken to approve subject to two small modifications which the Council have now accepted. This syllabus will be scheduled to, and will form part of, the Rules and it sufficiently indicates the subjects in which the candidate is required to be trained. The Council have decided to make the syllabus of training advisory only and I am advised that it is competent to them under the terms of Section 3 of the Act to adopt this course. As regards the last part of the question, I will sign the examination syllabus as soon as I receive the revised copy from the Council.