Universities (Chairs of General Practice)

HC Deb 27 October 1983 vol 47 cc159-60W

Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which universities, apart from Liverpool, have established chairs of general practice.

Mr. Peter Brooke

I understand that chairs of general practice have been established at the medical schools of the following institutions:

• University of Birmingham
• University of Leicester
• University of London: United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals (2 chairs) St.Mary's Hospital Medical School
• University of Manchester
• University of Southampton
• University of Wales (Welsh National School of Medicine)
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• Queen's University, Belfast.

In addition to the above, the University Grants Committee has agreed to support a chair at the University of London to be jointly maintained by the St. Bartholomew's and the London Hospital medical colleges.