§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will dismiss Gerald Bowskill, a nurse at Rampton hospital, convicted of assault on patients.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeNormal departmental and Civil Service disciplinary procedures are being followed in the case of Mr. Gerald Bowskill. A notice of dismissal was issued to Mr. Bowskill in November 1981 and he lodged an appeal with the Civil Service appeal board. The board 243W decided to await the outcome of the professional disciplinary proceedings before making its own recommendations. The case has now been considered through the professional disciplinary machinery of the General Nursing Council, which has administered a caution and decided to take no further disciplinary action of its own. The Civil Service appeal board's recommendation has now been received and is being considered.