HC Deb 23 March 1950 vol 472 c2135
7. Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

asked the Minister of Health whether it is with his approval that paid servants of Regional Hospital Boards or Group Hospital Management Committees are appointed members of the particular boards or committees by whom they are employed.

Mr. Bevan

As a general principle, I am not in favour of these officers serving as members of the bodies with which they are immediately connected. The requirements of the Acts make it inevitable, how-fever, that a limited number of the senior medical and dental staffs should be so appointed, and I recognise that there may be other exceptional cases where it is desirable so to appoint officers.