HC Deb 05 May 1976 vol 910 cc377-8W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Prime Minister whether he will announce the membership of the Royal Commission on the National Health Service.

The Prime Minister

In his reply on 27th January to my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. Ward) my predecessor informed the House of the appointment of Sir Alec Merrison, FRS, as chairman of the commission. The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of other members as followsProfessor Ivor Batchelor, CBE, Professor of Psychiatry, Dundee University. Professor Paul Bramley, Professor of Dental Surgery, Sheffield University. Sir Thomas Brown, Chairman of the Eastern Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland. C. M. Clothier, Esq., QC, Recorder and Judge of Appeal in the Isle of Man. Ann Clwyd, Journalist and member of the Cardiff Community Health Council. Peter Jacques, Esq., Secretary of the Social Insurance and Industrial Welfare Departments of the Trades Union Congress. Professor Jean McFarlane, Professor of Nursing, Manchester University. Miss Audrey Prime, OBE, Staff Side Secretary of the National Health Service, General Whitley Council. Miss K. Richards, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Social Work. Lady Sherman, borough alderman, Hackney. Sir Simpson Stevenson, Chairman of the Greater Glasgow Health Board. Councillor Dr. Cyril Taylor, general medical practitioner, Liverpool. Dr. Christopher Wells, OBE, TD, general medical practitioner, Sheffield. F. R. Welsh, Esq., director, Grindlay's Bank Limited. Professor Alan Williams, Professor of Economics, York University.

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