HC Deb 22 October 1991 vol 196 cc601-2W
Mr. Gerald Bowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to review future United Kingdom medical manpower.

Mr. Waldegrave

[pursuant to his reply, 15 July 1991, columns 69–70]: I am pleased to announce that the following have agreed to serve on the Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee which will be chaired by Professor Colin Campbell. vice-chancellor of Nottingham university:

Dr. John Ball, Chairman, Medical Practices Committee; member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners;

Professor David Bartholomew, Professor of Statistics. LSE; member, first and second Advisory Committees for Medical Manpower Planning;

Dr. Fiona Caldicott, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Chairman, Consultant and Associate Specialist Sub-Committee of the Central Manpower Committee;

Mr. Douglas Gentleman, Senior Registrar in Neurosurgery, South Glasgow central Hospital; member, General Medical Council;

Professor Keith Peters, Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University; former Chairman of M RC Physiological Systems Board;

Dame Rosemary Rue, DBE, former President of the BMA, and of the Medical Women's Federation;

Professor Dorothy Wedderburn, Senior Research Fellow, Management School, Imperial College; former Principal, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College;

Dr. Robert Wilson, Principal Research Fellow in Economics, Institute of Employment Research, Warwick university.