§ 27. Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in view of the fact that in almost every field of hospital speciality service Fife, and especially the West Fife area, is more badly provided for than most other parts of Scotland, if he will take account of these factors in deciding future allocations of expenditure on the health service.
§ Mr. McElhoneIf account is taken of the size of the population and the services in other areas used at present by Fife patients, the provision of hospital beds in Fife is not significantly different from other parts of Scotland except in the specialities of geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry. Planning of major new building to make good these deficiencies, and to provide new accommodation for acute services in West Fife, is already in hand. A working party is being set up shortly to consider the future method of allocating revenue funds to health authorities in Scotland.