§ Major CHAPPLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War (1) whether, in appointing nurses to the nursing staff of the Army, any discrimination is made against nurses teamed in hospitals that farm out their nurses after the end of their second year's training, taking them away from their training in the wards and paying them 13s. per week while they are earning £2 2s. for the hospital; (2) whether the certificate given to nurses at the end of their second year's training in the London Hospital is accepted by the Army nursing authorities as qualifying for appointment to the Army nursing staff?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe Regulations regarding the qualifications for appointment to the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service provide that a candidate must possess a certificate of not less than three years' training and service in medical and surgical nursing in a civil hospital having not less than 100 beds. Time spent in private nursing is not allowed to count towards the qualifying period of three years' training. The answer to the second question is in the negative.