§ Mr. Englishasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give an assurance that there are no financial impediments to the implementation of approved medical staff increases in the less well staffed parts of the country.
§ Mr. AlisonThe cost of increases in medical staff has to be met from the funds allocated to hospital boards (apart from partial central funding of senior registrar posts). The method of distributing between boards the funds available for running the hospital service is designed to equalise the resources available to regions over a period of years.