§ Miss Pittasked the Minister of Health whether midwives can now be authorised to administer trilene as an analgesic in childbirth.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe Medical Research Council have now, after prolonged investigations and trials, recommended that midwives acting on their own responsibility after adequate instruction be permitted to administer trilene with inhalers conforming to an approved 121W specification. I am informed that the Central Midwives Board have accepted this recommendation and I am now in consultation with the board as to the measures necessary to give effect to it.