HC Deb 20 March 1968 vol 761 c118W
Mr. Elystan Morgan

asked the Minister of Health, in view of the inconvenience caused to relatives travelling long distances to visit patients, if he will give an assurance that no cottage hospital in Wales will be closed in the foreseeable future.

Mr. K. Robinson

The full benefits of modern medicine can best be given in larger hospitals providing effective facilities for a wide range of treatment, and the pattern of hospital service for the future will require many fewer hospitals than at present. But no hospital will be dosed without my approval, and I shall satisfy myself in each Lease, that other facilities are available, aid that the closure serves the best interests of the people as a whole.