§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many bursaries his Department is providing for senior registrars to further their experience in geriatrics, in order to meet the doubling in the number of consultants in that specialty needed during the next decade as described in the recently published White Paper "Growing Older".
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe Welsh Office announced in August 1979 a scheme to award an annual bursary in each of the four following years to enable senior registrars to gain experience in geriatric medicine. No bursary has so far been taken up.
§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales what preparations his Department has made to train the substantially increased number of psychiatrists that will be needed over the coming decade to deal with the increasing numbers of senile psychiatric patients that, according to the recent White Paper "Growing Older," are to be cared for in community and other relatively small local hospitals, as opposed to large psychiatric hospitals, hitherto predominantly responsible for providing the service.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsI am satisfied that the area health authorities in Wales are fully aware of the need to deal with a growing number of psychiatric problems of the aged and will provide posts and training opportunities as resources and central manpower allocations permit.