§ Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that in the reconstitution of the standing committees of the General Nursing Council expert nurses have been taken off and lay-women of title with no knowledge of nursing, education, or registration have been elected in their places; and whether he will make representations as to the desirability of replacing upon the Education Committee a representative fever nurse?
§ Sir A. MONDThe nurse members of the Council seem to me to be fairly represented on the new committees, and I must demur most strongly to the hon. Member's reference to two ladies who have given much time to the work of the Council during the past two years. Of the nurse members who have ceased to serve on the Registration and Education Committees, the only one now in active practice represented fever nursing, and I find that this branch of nursing is already represented on both Committees by the Superintendent of an important fever hospital. The appointment of committees is wholly within the discretion of the Council, and I do not propose to adopt the course suggested by the hon. Member.