§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Minister of Health what steps he intends to take to increase the number of doctors.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonI understand that the University Grants Committee in allocating the revised University building programme, are making provision for medical school building in Great Britain which it is estimated will increase the number of pre-clinical medical student places by 500, thus adding 250 to the annual student entry, as a result of work to be started in 1966–67 and 1967–68. The effect of this will be to increase the annual entry of British-based medical students, which has already risen from 1,788 in 1960–61 to 2,283 in the current year, to over 2,500. I shall be arranging for provision of the necessary clinical teaching facilities.