§ Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Minister of Pensions whether he will consider an alteration in the present system of procedure with respect to officer patients in Pensions Ministry hospitals, so that when an officer is certified by a specialist medical officer to be incurable he should be boarded at once and not be compelled to apply for a medical board, which causes several weeks' delay in the consideration of his case?
§ Major TRYONI am glad to inform my hon. and gallant Friend that the procedure suggested by him has recently been authorised. In any case where an officer
1738Wtive, but the following figures give approximately the results up to date. As regards appeals against final awards it has not been found possible to give the detailed information asked for in the second part of the question, but the results as regards cases of assessments of 20 per cent. and upwards and of less than 20 per cent. are shown.
in receipt of conditional award is considered by the Medical Officer in charge of the hospital to be likely at the conclusion of his treatment to be in a materially more disabled condition than is represented by his current award, the patient is Boarded before discharge and a provisional award suitable to his condition is made.