§ 24. Commander Galbraithasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he is taking to keep in touch with representative medical opinion in regard to current problems affecting the development of the health services?
Mr. JohnstonBy long-established practice, the Department of Health for Scotland has from time to time sought outside expert advice upon special medical problems. But I find there is in the profession a general desire for a regularly constituted Committee to advise the Department on the many problems with a wide medical interest which are confronting the country to-day. I have therefore set 1575 up a Medical Advisory Committee whose terms of reference are "to advise on the medical aspects of problems relating to the health of the people." I shall circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the members.
§ Commander GalbraithI thank the right hon. Gentleman for that reply which, he will be aware, will give general satisfaction in Scotland.
§ Following is the list:
§ MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SCOTLAND)
§ Chairman:
§ Sir John Fraser, K.C.V.O., M.C., M.D., Ch.M., F.R.C.S., F.R.S.Ed.
§ Members:
§ Professor E. P. Cathcart, C.B.E., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
§ G. Matthew Fyfe, M.B., D.P.H.
§ Catherine Harrower, M.B.
§ Professor James Hendry, M.B.E., M.A., B.Sc., M.B., F.R.C.O.G., F.R.F.P.S.G.
§ Colonel T. D. Inch, O.B.E., M.C., M.D., D.P.H., F.R.C.P.Ed.
§ D. Dale Logan, D.S.O., M.D., D.P.H., F.R.F.P.S.G., M.I.M.E.
§ Sir Alexander S. M. Macgregor, O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., LL.D., F.R.F.P.S.G.
§ Eneas K. MacKenzie, M.D.
§ A. F. Wilkie Millar, M.D.
§ R. Richards, M.A., M.D., D.P.H., F.R.C.S. Sir John Boyd Orr, D.S.O., M.C., M.A., M.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.
§ Professor A. Patrick, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.F.P.S.G.
§ Professor Sydney Smith, M.D., D.P.H., F.R.C.P.Ed., F.R.S.Ed.