§ Mr. Abseasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is aware of the shortage of doctors in South Wales; what representations he has received for the creation of a further medical college in the Principality; what replies he has sent; and what action he is taking to ensure that Wales will have one of the new medical colleges intended to be established.
§ Mr. Goronwy RobertsMy right hon. Friend the Minister of Health is fully aware that more doctors would be welcomed in South Wales as elsewhere and will ensure that such considerations will be taken into account when the time comes for decisions to be made about the location of any new medical schools.
22WSeveral of my hon. Friends have from time to time drawn attention to the desirability of establishing a second medical school in Wales. A number of proposals for new medical schools have been made to the University Grants Committee by universities, but none, I understand, from Wales. The Royal Commission on Medical Education is considering, amongst other things, "what changes may be needed in the pattern, number, nature or location of the institutions providing medical education."