§ Mr. MUNRO-FERGUSONasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why the national organisations of trained nurses 1417W in England and Ireland have been refused direct representation on the advisory committees under the National Insurance Act, seeing that the details of medical treatment prescribed for insured persons will be carried out by nurses, whose professional standards and economic interests are thereby concerned, and that all other classes of women workers affected, including midwives, are accorded representation through their trade unions or professional associations?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe facts are not as suggested in the question. Two trained nurses and one representative of a large nursing association are on the Advisory Committee of the Joint Committee, and three trained nurses are on the Advisory Committee of the English Commission, one of whom is general superintendent of what is (I think) the largest association of nurses in the Kingdom. In Ireland no request for representation was received from any association of nurses, but a matron of a hospital was appointed.