Dr Edith Summerskill: Can the Minister say whether some scheme cannot be devised whereby the services of these frustrated registrars could be used in our underdeveloped countries, while giving them an undertaking that they would not lose their chances of promotion to consultant status here?
Dr Edith Summerskill: Will the Minister look at the report which in turn was reported in the Observer, because it makes serious statements with regard to the whole system of hospital feeding.
Dr Edith Summerskill: Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that there was a very useful debate in another place last week on the Pilkington Report? Does he not think that the House should have an opportunity to ventilate matters such as those which my hon. Friend has raised and other questions about the Report?
Dr Edith Summerskill: While we recognise your difficult position, of course, Mr. Speaker, and we accept your Ruling, may I say this to the House? As this statement did reflect adversely on the work of 25 Members of the House, could the editor of the newspaper be asked to retract it next Sunday if it was a misquotation?
Dr Edith Summerskill: . I think that it would be a little ungenerous for me not to stand up and thank the Minister wholeheartedly for conceding my point, but I am wondering whether he has given us only a slice or two of bread and not the whole loaf. What I am particularly worried about is that in his concluding sentence the right hon. and learned Gentleman said that we had broadened the statistical information. I...
Dr Edith Summerskill: I must say that the climate in these discussions has changed from what it was in Committee. I cannot understand why the right hon. and learned Gentleman was so difficult and very prickly to deal with when these suggestions, based on common sense and reason, were made. One would have thought that in the Standing Committee I was suggesting some outrageous revolutionary proposal. Again, we have...
Dr Edith Summerskill: I expressed pleasure before and surprise. I confess that on this occasion I feel a little like Alice in Wonderland, because in Committee when Amendments of this kind were put forward I intervened six times to press my point, but I am afraid that I was not successful. I am now very glad to learn that the Minister recognises that this will be a useful addition. I think that probably I did not...
Dr Edith Summerskill: This has been an interesting Bill, though most of us deplore the reason for its having had to be introduced in the first place. It stems from the Report of the Medical Research Council in 1956 when it asked for further information. Nevertheless, I always welcome statistics because I feel that only adequate statistics can guide one to a true evaluation particularly of social services in a...
Dr Edith Summerskill: We should all thank my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Mr. Reynolds) for focussing the attention of the House on this aspect of research. Having listened to the hon. Member for Putney (Sir H. Linstead), who is a member of the Medical Research Council, it must be clear to the House that every fact which my hon. Friend has elicited about this disease is accurate, because the hon....
Dr Edith Summerskill: The hon. Gentleman knows as much about the world as I do. He knows that pathology attracts a certain kind of man who may not be encouraged. The man who devotes himself to pathology—I am thinking of my own hospital—is often a person who feels a little remote from the world and prefers to devote his mind and original thinking to pathology. The hon. Gentleman has proved the point that I have...
Dr Edith Summerskill: Could the hon. Lady say how many have adopted projects that are related to renal diseases?
Dr Edith Summerskill: asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in establishing a flying doctor service in the African territories where there is a special need for an emergency medical service.
Dr Edith Summerskill: I thank the Minister for that Answer, but can he say whether they are co-operating with the Australian flying doctor service, which has proved so successful?
Dr Edith Summerskill: Further to that point of order. I was also under the impression that you were putting the Question, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, and as there have been so many contributions from the other side of the House, I certainly would have wanted an opportunity to speak on the point. If we are to have everyone from that side who wants to speak and no one from this side, I shall have to demand that I should...
Dr Edith Summerskill: And my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow, West (Mr. Redhead).
Dr Edith Summerskill: Can the hon. Lady say how far short the training facilities are of the McNair recommendations?
Dr Edith Summerskill: How can the Minister justify not giving one penny to the Malaria Eradication Fund, in view of the fact that many of the countries for which we are responsible have a very high mortality and morbidity rate for malaria?
Dr Edith Summerskill: Can the hon. Lady say whether there is any system of checking similar to that used in regard to the supervision of prescribing by chemists?
Dr Edith Summerskill: The Minister seeks to reassure the House, but has he forgotten that the Scientific Committee of the United Nations stated that there was no threshold dose in genetic effects?
Dr Edith Summerskill: Can the Minister say why the drug was withrawn on Tuesday, the day after the debate on the Supplementary Estimates on Monday, when the whole matter was ventilated and the attention of the Minister was directed to the article in the British Medical Journal? Does he recall that, in the summing-up in the last speech on that occasion, he implied that his Department justified the continued sale of...
