Dental Estimates Board

HC Deb 28 January 1957 vol 563 c665

42. Mr. Peyton

asked the Minister of Health if he will review the working of the Dental Estimates Board.

Mr. Vosper

The Committee on Recruitment to the Dental Profession has recently commented favourably upon the efficiency of the Board. I am of course always ready to investigate individual complaints.

Mr. Peyton

While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask him if he is aware that in the dental profession there is a feeling that this organisation suffers from almost every weakness of over-centralisation; that, by its somewhat autocratic attitude towards the profession, the Board is doing a great deal to alienate from the Health Services the loyalty of the profession? Would he, if necessary, take on the rôle of the new broom in regard to this organisation?

Mr. Vosper

I will do my best to visit the Board at an early opportunity, but it is only fair to say that two independent committees have both come down in its favour.