§ Mr. Gregor Mackenzieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to increase the number of mother/child units in Scottish hospitals.
§ Mr. RossThe attention of regional hospital boards has been drawn to the advice of the Standing Medical Advisory Committee on this subject, and it is for the boards, in the light of that advice, to provide such mother and child units as they judge to be required in their regions. The number of such units will be increased by the provision of one hundred mother and child rooms in the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, now under construction. Other smaller units will be provided in the new Nine-wells Hospital, Dundee, and in the new North Ayrshire District General Hospital; and a further scheme is under consideration for Woodlands Hospital, Aberdeen. It will be understood that arrangements for mothers to stay in hospital so that they can be close to their sick children are not confined to hospitals with mother and child units.