§ Dr. Dickson Mabonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he can now amplify his statement on the hospital building programme, with particular reference to projects in non-teaching hospitals.
§ Mr. MaclayPlanning work is going ahead on the schemes announced in the statement I made on 16th November, 1959. Regional hospital boards have since been authorised to complete plans for the following large schemes at non-teaching hospitals:
- 1.Vale of Leven Hospital—new maternity unit.
- 2.Bellsdyke Mental Hospital—replacement of obsolete accommodation and provision of male psychoneurosis unit.
- 3.Dunoon Cottage Hospital—new hospital to replace three existing hospitals.
- 4.Mackinnon Memorial Hospital, Skve— major extension.
A considerable amount of preparatory work has already been done on several other large schemes and I hope soon to authorise the boards concerned to go ahead with detailed plans.