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Public Health

Volume 416: debated on Thursday 22 November 1945

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Medical Schools (Women)

31.

asked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken to provide sufficient medical schools for women to be educated as doctors, in view of the shortage of such accommodation at the present time.

The Government have made it a condition of future grants to medical schools that a reasonable proportion of women students should be admitted, and medical schools which have not previously admitted them are making plans to do so, as soon as the difficulty of providing the necessary additional accommodation can be overcome.

Hospitals (Dietitians)

32.

asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider taking steps to make the appointment of dieticians compulsory in all hospitals and similar institutions.

I do not think that the appointment of a dietitian is necessary in every hospital nor have I power to require it. Such an appointment is, however, recommended wherever thought desirable by my advisers on dietetics who have visited' about 700 hospitals and similar institutions in the last eighteen months.

Would my right hon. Friend say whether this recommendation applies to mental hospitals?

If my hon. Friend will put that question on the Order Paper I will endeavour to answer it.