MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS (POST-GRADUATE COURSES).

HC Deb 14 November 1938 vol 341 cc510-1W

Mr. W. R. Duckworth

asked the Minister of Health whether he will give the number of insured doctors who have taken courses of post-graduate studies in the period since such courses were introduced?

Mr. Elliot

Of the insurance practitioners practising in England 58 attended a short series of experimental courses of post-graduate medical instruction in the autumn of 1937, and 862 will have attended courses this year when the current programme is completed this month.