§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) when he expects to make a decision regarding special responsibility allowances for additional work falling upon hospital administrations due to the number of undergraduate medical students being absorbed into the hospital for part of their training;
93W(2) when he expects to rule on the application of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, made in 1967, for a special responsibility allowance for hospital administrators of the Central Middlesex Hospital arising from their additional work-load caused by the training and permanent accommodation of undergraduate medical students.
§ Mr. AlisonThe Whitley Council has recognised such additional work by providing special gradings for top administrative posts in Boards of Governors and, more recently, University Hospital Management Committees. I hope it will be possible to deal with the application for Central Middlesex Hospital Management Committee, which does not have the statutory functions of a University Hospital Management Committee and is not therefore covered by the Whitley agreement, when the Staff Side has commented on a suggestion for recognising the additional work which was put to it by the Management Side last month. It was not possible to deal with the application until gradings for University Hospital Management Committees were settled earlier this year.