§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Health what steps he has taken to extend the procedure of some teaching hospitals which issue leaflets explaining their teaching activities to patients on admission, so that it covers all teaching hospitals.
§ Mr. BarberI am advising all Boards of Governors of teaching hospitals that the procedure should be extended to all hospitals.
§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Health (1) if he will state the names of the teaching hospitals which refuse treatment that is not urgent and can readily he obtained elsewhere, on the grounds that patients are unwilling to be used for teaching purposes;
(2) if he will give the names of the teaching hospitals which have on certain occasions recommended a patient to attend at another hospital because the patient was not willing to be used for teaching purposes; and on how many occasions this has happened for each hospital.
§ Mr. BarberRecords have not been kept, but reports from the Royal Free, University College, King's College, St. Mary's and United Liverpool Hospitals216W in England and Wales in 1963 as compared with 1962.
§ Mr. BrookeThe following table gives Indictable Offences the figures of indictable offences known to the police for 1962 and provisional figures for 1963, and shows the percentage variation between each of these years and the previous year:
indicate that in recent years a very small number of patients with non-urgent conditions who have refused to take part in teaching or to wait until the conclusion of a teaching session, and who could not be seen by another doctor, have been recommended to attend another hospital.