HC Deb 24 October 1966 vol 734 cc91-2W
Lord Balniel

asked the Minister of Health whether he will arrange for a study to be made of the organised service of voluntary help by members of the National Hospital Service Reserve in a hospital for the mentally subnormal in Bedfordshire with a view of seeing how usefully such schemes could be applied to hospitals for the mentally subnormal elsewhere in the country.

Mr. K. Robinson

This is the kind of voluntary effort which I greatly welcome and my Department is taking a close interest in the scheme's progress. If, as I hope, its success continues I should expect it to receive publicity in the hospital service and other management committees would thereby be encouraged to consider something similar in their hospitals.