HC Deb 20 January 1977 vol 924 cc288-9W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he proposes to upgrade the new Monklands General Hospital to the status of a teaching hospital; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Harry Ewing

Monkland District General Hospital was not designed to fulfil a medical teaching function, although I expect that as with similar hospitals elsewhere there will be some clinical teaching of medical students there. The extent to which the clinical teaching will be undertaken there is principally a matter for the Lanarkshire Health Board and Glasgow University to determine.