HL Deb 14 December 1976 vol 378 cc879-80WA
Baroness MASHAM of ILTON

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the Department of Health and Social Security has encouraged recruitment of doctors in its specialty of spinal injuries.

Lord WELLS-PESTELL

There is no specialty of spinal injuries as such. The treatment of spinal injuries requires a specialised medical team of doctors skilled in a number of areas, including neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurology and urology. These are all specialties in which there is no difficulty in recruiting doctors to till existing posts.