HC Deb 17 July 1919 vol 118 cc632-3W
Major GLYN

asked the Secretary of State for War if the position of those officers and men who are at present undergoing treatment in those military hospitals that are to be taken over by the Ministry of Pensions upon the 1st of August has been fully considered; whether it is proposed that patients are to be removed from those hospitals to others remaining under War Office control, in spite of the fact that their treatment is liable to be detrimentally effected if such transfer to nurses, doctors, and surgeons who have not supervised their cases from the first is carried out; and whether it is possible for the War Office and the Ministry of Pensions to come to such a financial understanding in regard to these cases that will permit these patients to remain undis- turbed and to continue their treatment under the existing medical and nursing staff?

Mr. FORSTER

No transfer will take place when injury to the patient's health would be likely to be caused thereby.