§ Mr. G. Jeger110, 111 and 112. asked the Minister of Health (1) why many non-teaching hospitals in the Sheffield regional hospital area are excluded from the list of approved hospitals and institutions and 199W recognised house officer posts under the Medical Act, 1950, having regard to the inclusion in the list of hospitals of comparable size and status in the other region;
(2) what advice he gave to the licensing body in the Sheffield region relating to the list of approved hospitals and recognised house officer posts which resulted in the adopting of criteria different from those applied in other regions, as evidenced by the abnormally low proportion of posts approved in that region;
(3) whether he is aware of the damage to the prestige of many major non-teaching hospitals in the Sheffield region and to their ability to attract medical staff which will be caused by their exclusion from the first published list of hospitals and institutions approved under the Medical Act, 1950.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodSection 2 of the Medical Act, 1950, gives me no jurisdiction in the approval of these posts. The Act leaves the approval of posts for this purpose entirely to the licensing bodies, i.e., the universities and, in England, the Conjoint Board of England (representing the Royal Colleges) and the Society of Apothecaries.