§ Major CHAPPLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether the certificate of training given by the London Hospital is accepted as qualifying for appointment to the Army nursing service; whether the certificate states that the nurse has had not less than three years' training in the hospital; whether he is aware that nurses in the hospital are taken from their training in the wards and are sent out at the end of their second year to nurse private cases for the purpose of appropriation by the hospital of not less than 29s. per week of their earnings and 2022W not for professional training; and whether, if time spent in private nursing is not allowed to count towards the qualifying period of three years' training, any steps are taken to discover what period of the years of training in the case of a London Hospital nurse applying for a post in the Army nursing service have been spent in private nursing?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONIn reply to questions by my hon. and gallant Friend on Thursday last, I stated what certificate of training must be possessed by candidates for appointment to the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Steps are always taken to ascertain that a nurse has completed the necessary training.