§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Health whether the funds forming the endowment of the Sanderson-Wells Nurses Prize Fund, Weymouth and District Hospital, still exist as a unit; what is the income from this fund; and what use is being made of the money, in view of the fact that it was given to help nurses to undertake courses which they otherwise could not do.
§ Mr. BevanThe Sanderson-Wells Nurses Prize Fund does not still exist as a separate unit. Under the provisions of subsection (4) of Section 7 of the National Health Service Act, 1946, it was transferred free of trust, in common with all other similar funds, to the central Hospital Endowments Fund set up under the Act. In accordance with the provisions of subsection (7) of Section 7 of the Act I have asked hospital authorities to secure so far as is reasonably practicable that in administering payments distributed to them out of the income from this central fund the objects of former endowments shall not be prejudiced and that the memory of the gifts shall be kept alive. In particular, I have asked the West Dorset Hospital Management Committee to have regard to the objects of the Sanderson-Wells Nurses Prize Fund in administering the sums received from time to time from the central fund.