§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will state, on the basis of the latest available figures, what National Health Service resources were expended on continuing education and training, either provided by the National Health Service or external agencies, on a full-time and part-time basis, in total and in each English region and Wales for the following categories: (a) chiropodists, (b) clinical psychologists, (c) dieticians, (d) medical laboratory scientific officers, (e) midwives, (f) nurses, including health visitors, (g) occupational therapists, (h) orthopaedists, (i) pharmacists, (j) physicists, (k) physiotherapists, (l) radiographers, diagnostic and therapeutic and (m) speech therapists.
§ Mr. NewtonThe information requested is not collected centrally. However the National Health Service Training Authority at the request of the National Health Service Management Board is developing performance indicators to show the resources devoted to National Health Service494W of Communication Arrangement has been de-classified, the details are regarded as classified by both the American and British Governments. The Arrangement provides for host nation support to US forces in the event of war, involving NATO countries. This includes interim medical care for US military casualties in National Health Service hospitals. The United States are also establishing their own contingency hospitals in the United Kingdom which would he equipped, manned and financed by the American Government, and activated only in a crisis.
Planning for the NHS in time of crisis or war does not include allocating specific civilian hospital beds in Britain for use by any US forces.