§ 50. Mr. Pavittasked the Minister of Health why changes in hospital use and bed allocation often ensue when a senior consultant retires.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonRetirement is often a convenient opportunity to review the arrangement of services in hospitals in the light of the requirements at the time.
§ Mr. PavittIn view of the need for the most economical and effective use of hospital beds, will my right hon. Friend ask regional hospital boards to take a fresh look at the use of respiratory consultants' beds with a view perhaps to changing them, as the pattern of medicine has changed?
§ Mr. RobinsonIt is not only when consultants retire that arrangements of this kind are reviewed, and I hope that hospital authorities keep them constantly under review.