HC Deb 27 June 1955 vol 543 cc3-4W
48. Mr. Awbery

asked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken to make effective use of our hospital nurses by transferring the domestic duties, now carried out by them to domestic staff.

Miss Hornsby-Smith

Hospital authorities are well aware of the desirability of relegating domestic duties to domestic

pital beds, excluding mental and teaching hospitals, and the average weekly cost, per convalescent patient, for each region, separately.

Mr. Iain Macleod

The reply is as follows:

staff, and nurses are not now employed on such duties to anything like the extent that they formerly were.