§ Mr. Foulkesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to 563W receive the Clegg Commission award to medical staff; and what additional finance will be available to health boards to meet the cost involved.
§ Mr. FairgrieveNo reference has been made to the Clegg Commission on medical staff. I understand that the Commission expects to report to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at the end of this year on nurses and midwives' pay, and on the professions supplementary to medicine shortly afterwards. As regards meeting any cost, I refer the hon. Member to
Health Board Average Available Staffed Beds (i) (year to Sept. 78) Average Available Staffed Beds per 1,000 population Argyll and Clyde 1,507 3.3 Ayrshire and Arran 779 2.1 Borders 321 3.2 Dumfries and Galloway 892 6.2 Fife 839 2.4 Forth Valley 925 3.4 Grampian (iii) 1,590 3.2 Greater Glasgow 4,174 4.0 Highland (iii) 893 4.1 Lanarkshire 1,754 3.1 Lothian 2,204 2.9 Tayside 1,691 4.2 Scotland 17,576(ii) 3.4 Note (i) The figures above are for mental illness, psycho-geriatric, child psychiatry and adolescent psychiatry beds. (ii) Scotland total does not equal sum of constituent parts due to rounding. (iii) Psychiatric beds are provided by the Highland health board for the Western Isles and by Grampian health board for Orkney and Shetland.