HC Deb 02 December 1968 vol 774 c234W
66. Mr. Worsley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the proposed hospital development in Chelsea.

Mr. Ennals

Plans for the development in Chelsea of a group of six postgraduate hospitals and their associated University Institutes are being reconsidered in the light of the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical Education, which made proposals which are incompatible with such a grouping. The Commission did, however, regard closer association between the Brompton Hospital and the National Heart Hospital as a desirable development, and planning for the joint development of the two hospitals and their associated University Institutes has commenced with a view to a start on the first phase of building in 1973–74.