§ Mr. Fisherasked the Minister of Health whether it is his policy to encourage more extensive training of professional hospital administrators and the greater development of management efficiency studies in the hospital service.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonTraining of hospital administrators is already provided at the Hospital Administrative Staff College of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, at the Nuffield Centre for Hospital and Health Service Studies at the University of Leeds, at the University of Manchester and at Training Centres administered by Regional Hospital Boards. I hope to see further development in this field in the light of a report on Recruitment and Management Development of Hospital Administrators which I have recently received from the National Staff Committee.
On the second part of the Question, several studies relating to hospital management were included in the list of current research contracts placed by the Department with Universities and Colleges of Advanced Technology which was 86W given in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) on 5th December, 1966. Expenditure on research of this kind is estimated to increase in the next financial year.—[Vol. 737, c. 185–93.]