§ Mr. Clark Hutchisonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what arrangements are being made to improve accommodation at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, pending replacement of the hospital.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe South-Eastern Regional Hospital Board is discussing with officers and clinicians of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children the feasibility of certain proposals for maintaining and improving services in the hospital by the rearrangement of some of the existing facilities. These proposals include the extension and improvement of the out-patient department and and the rehousing of the department of pediatric neurology. They are being discussed urgently with those concerned and it is hoped that an early agreement will be reached so that work can be put in hand quickly.