HL Deb 25 June 1973 vol 343 c1788

[No. 87] Schedule 1, page 52, line 22, leave out "of the medical profession" and insert "respectively of medical practitioners, dental practitioners, nurses, midwives, registered pharmacists and ophthalmic and dispensing opticians ".

LORD ABERDARE

My Lords, may I speak to Amendment No. 90 at the same time. These two Amendments add the bodies representative of dentists, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and opticians to the bodies representative of doctors, which alone were explicitly mentioned in the Bill originally, as bodies to be consulted by the Secretary of State when making appointments to Regional Health Authorities. Amendment No. 90 makes a similar provision in relation to Area Health Authorities. I beg to move.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Aberdare.)

On Question. Motion agreed to.