§ Mr. Reakesasked the Minister of Health if he will assure the House that where existing conditions of service of attendants at mental institutions are better than those recommended by the Rushcliffe Committee in its third Report, that Report will not be used to depress conditions of existing personnel.
§ Mr. WillinkI would draw my hon. Friend's attention to paragraph 79 Of the Report of the Rushcliffe Mental Nurses Sub-Committee, which recommends that nurses employed in mental hospitals and institutions when the Report was published should be given the option of accepting the Sub-Committee's proposals or of remaining on their existing scale of salary, emoluments and conditions of service. I have commended the Committee's proposals to the authorities concerned.