§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the most up-to-date figures of the numbers of doctors—consultant, junior hospital and family practitioner—medical administrators and qualified nurses and para-medical personnel—such as radiographers and physiotherapists—who have given up practice in the United Kingdom having trained in the United Kingdom and have emigrated in the past 12 months; and how such figures compare with similar qualified emigrants per year, two and four years ago.
§ Dr. VaughanI set out as follows information up to the latest available year on the numbers of fully or provisionally registered doctors, born in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, who, in the years shown, left the country after holding employment in the NHS:
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergAs we brought out in our policy handbook "Care in Action", we intend to establish minimum standards for the maternity and neonatal services on the lines recommended by the Select Committee on social services in its report last year on perinatal and neonatal mortality, and we are at present discussing with the professional bodies how these should be defined. We are also anxious to achieve improvements in antenatal care, and have asked the maternity services advisory committee to examine this as its first task.