1206 Notes and News ATTACHMENT SCHEME BECOMES COMPULSORY COMPARED with some countries, Britain makes it fairly easy for doctors qualifying elsewhere to come and practise here. Until this week, an overseas applicant for a hospital job was eligible for appointment if he held a voucher under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act or, if an alien, permis- sion from the immigration and nationality department of the Home Office; if he was registered (fully, provisionally, or temporarily) with the General Medical Council; and if he was a member of an approved medical defence associa- tion. But on Nov. 28 another obstacle was added when an attachment scheme became compulsory for all overseas doctors who are not exempt. The scheme is much the same as the one that had been operating, on a voluntary basis and with mixed success, for over three years. Doc- tors will have to spend up to a month in an approved hos- pital unit: they will have no clinical responsibility and their activities will be limited to history taking, examination of selected patients, and the performance of certain procedures under supervision. The doctor will have access to local and national postgraduate institutions; he will be paid at half the salary for a first house-officer appointment (i.e., El 2 a week) free of tax; accommodation will be provided (but not for dependants) free of charge but meals will have to be paid for. At the end of the attachment period the consultant will state on a certificate the sort of post the attached doctor is most suited to, bearing in mind both clinical competence and command of English. The fol- lowing are exempt from attachment: sponsored doctors (students coming to Britain for training under technical- assistance and scholarship schemes); doctors already accepted for an appointment in the grade of registrar or above; doctors who have done a U.K. university course for at least three months and have a certificate of competence in English from the course tutor; and doctors with a testi- monial from a referee known to the hospital board estab- lishing suitability and command of English. The scheme applies to the Hospital Service only: no mention is made of general practice where recruitment is increasingly from overseas doctors, especially those qualifying in India or Pakistan. Application forms for an attachment place can be obtained from British diplomatic missions, British Council offices, or direct from the central clearing house for overseas medical grad- uates, Department of Health and Social Security, Alexander Fleming House, London S.E.I. RECRUITMENT TO THE GREATER MEDICAL PROFESSION THE professions supplementary to medicine are in danger of raising their entrance qualifications to a standard which the work, pay, and prospects do not merit. At a time of acute staff shortage they may be excluding possible recruits. To discover what was going wrong, Margaret Martin made a selective study of dietitians, occupational therapists, orthoptists, physiotherapists, and radiographers. Replies to questionaries showed that students in these professions were better qualified academically than student nurses and that they came almost exclusively from grammar or public and private schools. Over 40% of each profession (except radiographers) had passed examinations at A level, which brought the professions into competition with teacher- training schools and universities when trying to win recruits. Yet their recruitment policy does little to combat this 1. Colleagues or Competitors? By MARGARET MARTIN. Occasional papers on social administration no. 31. London: G. Bell. 1969, Pp. 103. 30s. growing competition. The most important factor influen- cing a student’s choice was contact with a friend or relative in the profession, and formal channels of recruitment, such as.the Youth Employment Service, had little effect. Once recruited, these well-qualified members did not always find their jobs very satisfying. After four or five years many complained of low salaries and poor prospects, and had considered leaving the hospital service. Low pay particu- larly deters many men who might otherwise be interested in joining the professions. Margaret Martin concludes that each profession must take an objective look at itself to see what it really has to offer. University of London The following have passed examinations for the M.B., B.s.: Honours.-Elizabeth C. Bradley (e), M. D. Buckley-Sharp (a), D. A. Burns (a), K. R. Dickson (c), T. R. Gamlen (d), S. R. Gould (a), D. M. B. Hall (a, b, c, d) (university medal), A. N. Hamlyn (c), G. J. Huston (c), Marilyn D. 0. John (c), Valerie M. Keeble (e), Adrian Reuben (a. c), Susan H. Roberts (a, b, c), J. I. G. Strang (e), L. J, Turner (d), P. H. Walter (a), Alison M. Watson (d), B. A. Wood (a). (a) Distinguahed in pathology; (b) distinguished in medicine; (c) distin- guished in applied pharmacology and therapeutics; (d) distinguished in surgery; (e) distinguished in obstetrics and gynaecology. Pass.-D. J. Aldridge, N. G. Armand Smith, D. I. Arthurs, P. C. Badcock, G. R. H. Baker, M. J. Balsdon, Brian Barbier, Kathryn L, Barnett, J. L. Bart, D. W. Bartlett, P. C. Bates, J. P. Beacon, M. J, Beeby, Peter Bellamy, R. A. Bellenger, P. G. Bentley, Frances J. Beswick, J. R. Bevan, A. F. Boatman, P. J. Bolton, A. B. Bomford, C. M. Booth, Judith V. Brett, P. G. Brock, D. F. Brown, P. E. Bundred, R. A. Buxton, D. M. Calver, I. K. Campbell, R. F. Carter, Jennifer A. Casson, N. P. C. Cavanagh, D. J. Cave-Bigley, Catherine I. W. Cazes, J. M. Chapman, Krisna Chatamra, R. J. Chiswell, D. J. M. Choat, D. A. Churchill, H. C. V. Churchward, M. N. Clark, D. R. Clarke, P. J. Clements, M. A. Clifton, P. R. Coburn, Christine B. Cocks, P. G. Coggan, G. A. Corbett, P. J. Corbett, Sheila C. Corbett, Philip Costello, I. F. Crabbe, Beatrice C. Crowther-Smith, P. G. D. Curzon, J. C. Cutting, P. J. Dady, P. J. Davenport, Jasmine G. Davies, Margaret C. Davies, G. R. Davis, M. H. 0. Dawson, J. B. Day, K. C. Dewbury, H. S. Dobson, S. J. Dove, Frances H. Dower, Jennifer M. Duckham, J. F. Dufton, R. P. H. Dunnill, A. J. Edwards, J. A. Edwards, J. M. England, R. J. Evans-Jones, M. G. Fanchette, A. S. Ferguson, W. D. Field, A. S. Fox, J. D. Frank, C. I. V. Franklin, W. H. Franklin, Bridget A. Friedmann, Lynne Fyfield, D. M. J. Geewater, Jennifer M, Gibson, J. N. G. Gilchrist, 1. H. Gillespie, C. A. V. Goodchild, N. T. Goodchild, H. P. Goodman, Gavin Gordon, J. D. G. Gower, R. N. M. Gray, K. R. Greene, Moira A. Gribbin, N. K. Griffin, I. D. Griffiths, J. R. Griffiths, 1. T. Grimble, Christine A. Grundy, Nadejda Guercken, Jacqueline Hagger, R. A. Haig, Peter Hall, C. S. M. Hallam, R. J. Ham, R. I. Harris, R. R. Harrod, J. S. Harrop, A. MacP. Hay, Paul Haycock, Bryan Hayhow, C. J. Healey, C. M. B. Hewitt, D. J. Hibbert, J. F. Hill, Fred Hirst, A. A. Holmes, A. D. L. Hoppe, G. P. Hosking, 1. J. Hossack, Assiahbibi Kuddoosia Aziza Hossenbux, T. G. Howard, R. G. Hughes, D. E. C. Hurle, Diana R. Iwi, M. J. James, J. V. Jestico, D. J. Jolley, R. T. Jolly, Ann M. Jones, P. H. Jones, S. B. Jones, M. V. Joyner, J. B. L. Kabuubi, P. T. 0. von Kaufmann, Jean M. Kay, C. A. Kekwick, J. B. Kelynack, R. J. Kemp, J. G. Kensit, P. J. W. Kersey, Mian Nasim Khurshid, R. J. King, Rosalind A. King, W. C. King, A. S. R. M. Kumar, M. F. Laker, Anne R. Lakin, E. M. Lasserson, Rachel H, Latey, N. J. Lattimer, F. C. J. Leach, N. T. Leach, A. M. S. Leaman, R. N. Lee, Beatrice A. Leigh, R. B. Lewis, D. J. Lloyd, A. D. Logan, P. N. Longthorne, J. P. Lucas, G. A. N. Luft, R. F. McCloy, Murray McEwen, B. G. Mackay, Edward McKay-Ferguson, P. J. McKenna, J. 1. McLachlan, Ann L. McLaren, G. E. MacLellan, H. I. McNamara, Patricia M. Magee, G. R. Major, M. J. Malec, R. H. C. Markham, R. E. Martin, Jennifer E. Masding, A. G. Mathie, T. H. J. Matthews, Carole D. May, K. R. Mayne, B. J. Miller, G. F. Miller, Harvey Minasian, A. R. Mohr, M. S. Morgan, P. R. F. Morgan, P. A. Mossman, E. M. Moult, M. A. S. Mowbray, D. S. Myers, J. D. Nancarrow, I. T. Nash, P. E. Nicholls, Keith Nicol, P. G. Norton, Roger Oldham, R. J. Olliver, L. D. Ormerod, C. R. T. Palmer, C. E. Parker, John Pemberton, E. D. Pereira, J. L. Peters, D. J. M. Peterson, D. F. H. Pheby, A. W. Popple, J. M. Porter, A. J. Price, S. F. Pugh, R. J. Pye, C. R. G. Quick, P. M. Quinn, J. W. Rackey, P. J. H. Read, C. M. Reynolds, Paul Reynolds-Davies, D. J. Riches, Richard Rigby, Jennifer R. M. Robshaw, R. F. Rockstro, C. H. Rodeck, A. H. Roderick, E. D. Rose, Nina L. Roy, D. A. Russell, R. M. Sandler, J. R. A. Sanford, J. H. B. Saunders, A. M. Seal, Michael Seear, V. G. Selwyn, S. M. Shalet, Janet Share, D. F. Shelley, K. D. Shenderey, Hani Jabra Shuhaiber, Jerzy-Marian Sikorski, P. A. Sims, R. K. A. M. Skinner, R. E. G. Sloan, Elizabeth A. Smales, A. W. Smith, Christine M. Smith, N. P. Smith, W. M. V. Smith, A. R. Snow, T. C. Spooner, James Stafford, J. D. Stamatakis, Margaret H. Stansfield, Mary C. Steele, D. M. Stern, G. M. Stern, Christine Sterndale, N. E. S. Stokes, J. R. Syred, G. R. H. Talbot, Alvin Chow Ng Tan, Chong Siang Tan, M. S. Tanner, Susan M. Tarlo, Margaret E. Taylor, Colin Teasdale, Henry Tegner, P. L. Thomas,
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Notes and News
ATTACHMENT SCHEME BECOMES COMPULSORY
COMPARED with some countries, Britain makes it fairlyeasy for doctors qualifying elsewhere to come and practisehere. Until this week, an overseas applicant for a hospitaljob was eligible for appointment if he held a voucher underthe Commonwealth Immigrants Act or, if an alien, permis-sion from the immigration and nationality department ofthe Home Office; if he was registered (fully, provisionally,or temporarily) with the General Medical Council; and ifhe was a member of an approved medical defence associa-tion. But on Nov. 28 another obstacle was added when anattachment scheme became compulsory for all overseas
doctors who are not exempt. The scheme is much thesame as the one that had been operating, on a voluntarybasis and with mixed success, for over three years. Doc-tors will have to spend up to a month in an approved hos-pital unit: they will have no clinical responsibility and theiractivities will be limited to history taking, examination ofselected patients, and the performance of certain proceduresunder supervision. The doctor will have access to localand national postgraduate institutions; he will be paid athalf the salary for a first house-officer appointment (i.e.,El 2 a week) free of tax; accommodation will be provided(but not for dependants) free of charge but meals will haveto be paid for. At the end of the attachment period theconsultant will state on a certificate the sort of post theattached doctor is most suited to, bearing in mind bothclinical competence and command of English. The fol-
lowing are exempt from attachment: sponsored doctors(students coming to Britain for training under technical-assistance and scholarship schemes); doctors alreadyaccepted for an appointment in the grade of registrar orabove; doctors who have done a U.K. university course forat least three months and have a certificate of competencein English from the course tutor; and doctors with a testi-monial from a referee known to the hospital board estab-lishing suitability and command of English. The schemeapplies to the Hospital Service only: no mention is made ofgeneral practice where recruitment is increasingly fromoverseas doctors, especially those qualifying in India orPakistan.
Application forms for an attachment place can be obtainedfrom British diplomatic missions, British Council offices, or
direct from the central clearing house for overseas medical grad-uates, Department of Health and Social Security, AlexanderFleming House, London S.E.I.
RECRUITMENT TO THE GREATER MEDICAL
PROFESSION
THE professions supplementary to medicine are in dangerof raising their entrance qualifications to a standard whichthe work, pay, and prospects do not merit. At a time ofacute staff shortage they may be excluding possible recruits.To discover what was going wrong, Margaret Martin madea selective study of dietitians, occupational therapists,orthoptists, physiotherapists, and radiographers. Replies toquestionaries showed that students in these professionswere better qualified academically than student nurses andthat they came almost exclusively from grammar or publicand private schools. Over 40% of each profession (exceptradiographers) had passed examinations at A level, whichbrought the professions into competition with teacher-
training schools and universities when trying to win recruits.Yet their recruitment policy does little to combat this
1. Colleagues or Competitors? By MARGARET MARTIN. Occasionalpapers on social administration no. 31. London: G. Bell. 1969,Pp. 103. 30s.
growing competition. The most important factor influen-cing a student’s choice was contact with a friend or relativein the profession, and formal channels of recruitment, suchas.the Youth Employment Service, had little effect. Oncerecruited, these well-qualified members did not always findtheir jobs very satisfying. After four or five years manycomplained of low salaries and poor prospects, and hadconsidered leaving the hospital service. Low pay particu-larly deters many men who might otherwise be interestedin joining the professions. Margaret Martin concludes thateach profession must take an objective look at itself to seewhat it really has to offer.
University of LondonThe following have passed examinations for the M.B., B.s.:Honours.-Elizabeth C. Bradley (e), M. D. Buckley-Sharp (a), D. A.
Burns (a), K. R. Dickson (c), T. R. Gamlen (d), S. R. Gould (a),D. M. B. Hall (a, b, c, d) (university medal), A. N. Hamlyn (c), G. J.Huston (c), Marilyn D. 0. John (c), Valerie M. Keeble (e), AdrianReuben (a. c), Susan H. Roberts (a, b, c), J. I. G. Strang (e), L. J,Turner (d), P. H. Walter (a), Alison M. Watson (d), B. A. Wood (a).
(a) Distinguahed in pathology; (b) distinguished in medicine; (c) distin-guished in applied pharmacology and therapeutics; (d) distinguished insurgery; (e) distinguished in obstetrics and gynaecology.Pass.-D. J. Aldridge, N. G. Armand Smith, D. I. Arthurs, P. C.
Badcock, G. R. H. Baker, M. J. Balsdon, Brian Barbier, Kathryn L,Barnett, J. L. Bart, D. W. Bartlett, P. C. Bates, J. P. Beacon, M. J,Beeby, Peter Bellamy, R. A. Bellenger, P. G. Bentley, Frances J. Beswick,J. R. Bevan, A. F. Boatman, P. J. Bolton, A. B. Bomford, C. M. Booth,Judith V. Brett, P. G. Brock, D. F. Brown, P. E. Bundred, R. A.Buxton, D. M. Calver, I. K. Campbell, R. F. Carter, Jennifer A. Casson,N. P. C. Cavanagh, D. J. Cave-Bigley, Catherine I. W. Cazes, J. M.Chapman, Krisna Chatamra, R. J. Chiswell, D. J. M. Choat, D. A.Churchill, H. C. V. Churchward, M. N. Clark, D. R. Clarke, P. J.Clements, M. A. Clifton, P. R. Coburn, Christine B. Cocks, P. G.Coggan, G. A. Corbett, P. J. Corbett, Sheila C. Corbett, Philip Costello,I. F. Crabbe, Beatrice C. Crowther-Smith, P. G. D. Curzon, J. C.Cutting, P. J. Dady, P. J. Davenport, Jasmine G. Davies, Margaret C.Davies, G. R. Davis, M. H. 0. Dawson, J. B. Day, K. C. Dewbury,H. S. Dobson, S. J. Dove, Frances H. Dower, Jennifer M. Duckham,J. F. Dufton, R. P. H. Dunnill, A. J. Edwards, J. A. Edwards, J. M.England, R. J. Evans-Jones, M. G. Fanchette, A. S. Ferguson, W. D.Field, A. S. Fox, J. D. Frank, C. I. V. Franklin, W. H. Franklin,Bridget A. Friedmann, Lynne Fyfield, D. M. J. Geewater, Jennifer M,Gibson, J. N. G. Gilchrist, 1. H. Gillespie, C. A. V. Goodchild, N. T.Goodchild, H. P. Goodman, Gavin Gordon, J. D. G. Gower, R. N. M.Gray, K. R. Greene, Moira A. Gribbin, N. K. Griffin, I. D. Griffiths,J. R. Griffiths, 1. T. Grimble, Christine A. Grundy, Nadejda Guercken,Jacqueline Hagger, R. A. Haig, Peter Hall, C. S. M. Hallam, R. J. Ham,R. I. Harris, R. R. Harrod, J. S. Harrop, A. MacP. Hay, Paul Haycock,Bryan Hayhow, C. J. Healey, C. M. B. Hewitt, D. J. Hibbert, J. F. Hill,Fred Hirst, A. A. Holmes, A. D. L. Hoppe, G. P. Hosking, 1. J. Hossack,Assiahbibi Kuddoosia Aziza Hossenbux, T. G. Howard, R. G. Hughes,D. E. C. Hurle, Diana R. Iwi, M. J. James, J. V. Jestico, D. J. Jolley,R. T. Jolly, Ann M. Jones, P. H. Jones, S. B. Jones, M. V. Joyner,J. B. L. Kabuubi, P. T. 0. von Kaufmann, Jean M. Kay, C. A. Kekwick,J. B. Kelynack, R. J. Kemp, J. G. Kensit, P. J. W. Kersey, Mian NasimKhurshid, R. J. King, Rosalind A. King, W. C. King, A. S. R. M.Kumar, M. F. Laker, Anne R. Lakin, E. M. Lasserson, Rachel H,Latey, N. J. Lattimer, F. C. J. Leach, N. T. Leach, A. M. S. Leaman,R. N. Lee, Beatrice A. Leigh, R. B. Lewis, D. J. Lloyd, A. D. Logan,P. N. Longthorne, J. P. Lucas, G. A. N. Luft, R. F. McCloy, MurrayMcEwen, B. G. Mackay, Edward McKay-Ferguson, P. J. McKenna,J. 1. McLachlan, Ann L. McLaren, G. E. MacLellan, H. I. McNamara,Patricia M. Magee, G. R. Major, M. J. Malec, R. H. C. Markham,R. E. Martin, Jennifer E. Masding, A. G. Mathie, T. H. J. Matthews,Carole D. May, K. R. Mayne, B. J. Miller, G. F. Miller, HarveyMinasian, A. R. Mohr, M. S. Morgan, P. R. F. Morgan, P. A. Mossman,E. M. Moult, M. A. S. Mowbray, D. S. Myers, J. D. Nancarrow, I. T.Nash, P. E. Nicholls, Keith Nicol, P. G. Norton, Roger Oldham, R. J.Olliver, L. D. Ormerod, C. R. T. Palmer, C. E. Parker, John Pemberton,E. D. Pereira, J. L. Peters, D. J. M. Peterson, D. F. H. Pheby, A. W.Popple, J. M. Porter, A. J. Price, S. F. Pugh, R. J. Pye, C. R. G. Quick,P. M. Quinn, J. W. Rackey, P. J. H. Read, C. M. Reynolds, PaulReynolds-Davies, D. J. Riches, Richard Rigby, Jennifer R. M. Robshaw,R. F. Rockstro, C. H. Rodeck, A. H. Roderick, E. D. Rose, Nina L.Roy, D. A. Russell, R. M. Sandler, J. R. A. Sanford, J. H. B. Saunders,A. M. Seal, Michael Seear, V. G. Selwyn, S. M. Shalet, Janet Share,D. F. Shelley, K. D. Shenderey, Hani Jabra Shuhaiber, Jerzy-MarianSikorski, P. A. Sims, R. K. A. M. Skinner, R. E. G. Sloan, Elizabeth A.Smales, A. W. Smith, Christine M. Smith, N. P. Smith, W. M. V.Smith, A. R. Snow, T. C. Spooner, James Stafford, J. D. Stamatakis,Margaret H. Stansfield, Mary C. Steele, D. M. Stern, G. M. Stern,Christine Sterndale, N. E. S. Stokes, J. R. Syred, G. R. H. Talbot,Alvin Chow Ng Tan, Chong Siang Tan, M. S. Tanner, Susan M. Tarlo,Margaret E. Taylor, Colin Teasdale, Henry Tegner, P. L. Thomas,
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E. A, Thompson, Ian MacL. Thomson, Wendy A. Thorne, A. M.Thynne, P. R. Ticehurst, ‘°’. R. Tingey, C. D. C. Tomlins, C. G. Traill,D. C. Turner, J. E. Turnel, Juliana M. Vertes, P. S. Vinall, J. Kam SiakWee, Margaret J. Weir, S. P. Wilkinson, T. R. Williams, C. P. L.
Wood, R. M. Wright, R. E. Wright, A. G. Young.
University of AberdeenDr. A. Graeme Nicol has been appointed senior lecturer
in pathology, and Dr. Dorothy C. Coull and Dr. G. A.Venters have been appointed lecturers in social medicine.
University of DundeeDr. J. D. E. Knox, a principal in a group practice in
Edinburgh, has been appointed to the new Pfizer chair ofgeneral practice.Dr. Knox, who is 42. was educated at George Watson’s and
Edinburgh University. After
graduating M.B. in 1949 he held
house-posts at the Royal Infirmary,Edinburgh, and at Leith Hospital,and later became registrar at theRoyal Infirmary. In 1961 heentered general practice in Edin-burgh. He was one of the first
family doctors to be appointed to ahospital post when he took up apart-time appointment as hospitalpractitioner in the department ofmedicine at the Western General
Hospital, Edinburgh. He was
co-opted to the council of the
Royal College of General Practi-tioners and is secretary of thecourt of examiners of the college,and he has also served on a numberof departmental committees in
Scotland. In 1967 he took the M.D., and earlier this year hewas elected F.R.C.P.E.
Royal College of Surgeons of EdinburghAt the annual meeting of the college on Oct. 15, the
following new office-bearers were elected:Secretary, Mr. John Cook; president’s council, Prof. F. J. Gillingham,
Mr. J. A. Ross, Mr. W. Selby Tulloch, Mr. T. I. Wilson.
The following were admitted fellows:Mohamed Belal Abdalla, 1. V. Adair, Michael Adler, Kawther
Hassan Ajeenah, Mohamed Salib Said Al-Ani, Hassan Ibrahim AI-Kudairi, Adnan Saeed Al-Najjar, Kamal Salman Al-Ubaid, KwasiAmetewee, Parvesh Kumar Anand, Kirit Laxmilal Antani, IbrahimAbdel Aziz Abdalla, Ashour Badalbit, T. W. Balfour, Sauryya KumarBandyopadhyay, Ramratan Bhagwandas Bhandari, Dinker Bhole, KamalBose, A. E. Bray, J. D. Brodrick, G. D. Byrne, P. J. Carleton, AmareshChandra Chakraverty, Krishna Chandra, Rudra Bahan Chatterjee,Rameshchandra Popatlal Chauhan, Bashir Ahmad Chohan, SutanuKumar Choudhuri, Wan Hoi Chua, Priyatosh Das, Sakti Prosad Das,Salil Kumar Datta, D. J. Davison, Shyamkant Dattatraya Dighe, M. H.Edwards, Mohamed Gamal El-Din El-Baz, R. L. Evans, W. J. Evering-ham, T. F. Fannin, Khairallah Butros Farjo, P. J. Fenn, W. A. B.Fraser, Sudhanshu Sekhar Gayen, Bhagwant Gill, T. B. Gilpin, J. 0.Greenhalf, Narendra Kumar Gupta, Mohammed Tahir Hasan, Abdel-Hamid Haseeb, R. R. S. Howard, W. H. Isles, Mohamed Ali HasanIssa, Jeswant Singh Jassal, R. W. Jones, U. 0. E. Jones, Syed WasifMohyuddin Kadri, Shyam Janardan Karande, Farakh Ahmed Khan,Mohammad Abdul Raheem Khan, Bhushan Lal Lhashu, Cecil AdjeiKlufio, Cherif Adly Raouf Kotry, Kwok Keung Lee, Petronella C.Leighton, W. V. Levins, D. R. H. Lewis, Chaw Ming Ling, H. W.Losken, Chi-Kan Lun, D. A. D. Macleod, I. M. Macmichael, Pandur-angam Madisetti, Swaminathan Mahendran, Sardul Singh Malhi,Muhammad Aslam Malik, Sivaramalingam Manickavasagar, A. J.Mearns, G. W. Miller, Arif Moten, Shambhu Nath, Heinrich Nikschtat,Mahmoud Manouchehr Nourbakhsh, Henry Benjamin Obonyo, AliOnsi-Abdeen, Sinnathamby Paramarajah, Gulcher Rustomjee Patel,Soham Shankerbhai Patel, A. L. G. Peel, Anthony Pickering, A. R.Power, Arudi Lakshminarasimhaiah Prabhakar, Ishwari Prasad Pradhan,C. 1. Press, Mahfuzur Rahman, Syed Ataur Rahman, SekharipuramVenkatachalam Ramachandran, Raghupathy Ramalingam, AroorBhasker Rao, F. L. Rosenfeldt, T. T. Roy, Mohamad Salim Sabir,Om Parkash Saini, Salah Eldin Taha Salih, J. D. Scurrah, SohrabBanisoleyman Shaybani, Khalil Nael Shihabi, Riaz Ahsan Siddiqui,John Sinclair, Kulwant Singh, B. S. Slinger, 1. A. Spira, A. G. Spitzer,P. R. Steele, R. A. Sutton, J. D. Taylor, P. R. Tennekoon, KanagasabaiThilagarajah, John Townsend, Walter Chukwuma Uduku, ThonguebUttaravichien, Dhiraj Pal Singh Varma, Ismail Suleman Vawda, R. W.Wainwright, Ambrose Eric Onyango Wasunna, R. D. Wines, G. MWise, Samuel Chinatu Woko.
Royal College of PathologistsAt a meeting of the college on Nov. 12, the following
honorary officers for. the forthcoming year were named:President, Prof. Theodore Crawford; vice-presidents, Prof. A. C.
Cunliffe, Dr. Frank Hampson, Prof. G. L. Montgomery; registrar,Prof. R. C. Curran; treasurer, Prof. R. D. Teare; assistant registrar,Dr. J. R. Tighe; new members of council, Prof. P. G. H. Gell, Prof.C. V. Harrison, Dr. M. G. Nelson, Dr. G. H. Tovey.
Sir Harold Himsworth, F.R.S., and Sir Ashley Miles,F.R.S., were admitted to the honorary fellowship.
Royal College of General PractitionersAt a meeting of the college on Nov. 15 Dr. J. H. Hunt
was re-elected president, and Sir Max Rosenheim, P.R.c.P.,and Mr. Donald Bowie were elected honorary fellows. Thefollowing officers of council were elected:
Chairman, G. Swift; vice-chairman, J. S. McCormick; deputy vice-chairman, J. G. R. Clarke; hon. treasurer, S. J. Carne; hon. secretary,B. C. S. Slater.
Heberden SocietyAt this society’s annual dinner, held in London on Nov. 21
under the presidency of Prof. J. J. R. Duthie, Mrs. BarbaraCastle, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity,spoke of the estimated 30 million working days lost eachyear in Britain through rheumatic diseases. The Arthritisand Rheumatism Council’s industrial survey unit had foundthat a sixth of a random sample of men registered as disabledand out of work for a long period attributed their disabilityand enforced unemployment to rheumatic complaints.Industrial rehabilitation units now numbered 22, and some13,000 people were completing courses each year. Mrs.Castle intended to set up within the D.E.P. an employmentmedical advisory service to coordinate and develop themedical work in the Department and to create a corps ofexperts in occupational health to whom anyone needingadvice on any aspect of this subject could turn.
Statistical Research and Services UnitThe Medical Research Council has set up this unit at
University College Hospital Medical School under thedirection of Dr. I. Sutherland. It will advise and assistCouncil committees and staff on statistical aspects of theirinvestigations, and will carry out research into the develop-ment and evaluation of statistical techniques for biologicaland medical data, and into possible disease mechanisms andepidemiological models.
World Health Organisation and EnvironmentalHealth
The United Kingdom Committee for W.H.O. is to holda meeting on this subject on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 2.30 P.M.,at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,Keppel Street, London W.C.1. Speakers will includeDr. N. F. Izmerov (U.S.S.R.), an assistant director-generalof W.H.O., and Mr. C. R. Atkins (U.S.A.), chief ofW.H.O.’s Division of Environmental Health.
Information on Animal Models and Genetic StocksThe Institute for Laboratory Animal Resources has
established a committee on animal models and geneticstocks, which will concentrate on providing informationto interested parties. Anyone who has a question con-cerning an animal model of disease, or a genetic stock ofanimals, can write to or call the Institute for LaboratoryAnimal Resources, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washing-ton, D.C. 20418 (area code [202] 961-1692). The com-mittee will also publish selected references to animalmodels of disease and genetic stocks in the quarterlyILAR News; the first issue to contain this information willappear in January.
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Nurses to be Consulted
Mr. Richard Crossman, Secretary of State for SocialServices, speaking at a meeting of the Colchester MedicalSociety earlier this week, said that the root cause of dis-content among nurses was a combination of difficult workingconditions and a sense of frustration at not being consultedbefore decisions were taken which affected their work.Doctors should not take decisions in their own work which
might make additional demands on the time, energies, andexpertise of nurses without taking this fully into account.The only way of reliably doing this was to bring nurses intoconsultation at the right level.
Planning for the DisabledThe Central Council for the Disabled and the Town
Planning Institute are sponsoring a conference on planningfor the disabled in the urban environment which is to beheld at 10 A.M. on Thursday, March 5, at 66 Portland Place,London W.I. Applications (84s., including lunch) shouldbe sent to the director of Access for the Disabled, 34Eccleston Square, London S.W.I.
The Hunterian Society is to hold the following meetings: onMonday, Dec. 15, at 7 P.M. at the Talbot Restaurant, 64 LondonWall, E.C.2, Dr. M. Hamilton will lead a discussion on manage-ment of hypertension; on Monday, Jan. 19, at 8.30 P.M., at theRoyal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,London W.C.2, Sir John Peel will speak on William Hunter-royal accoucheur; on Monday, March 2, at 7 P.M., at the TalbotRestaurant, Sir Derrick Dunlop will lead a discussion oniatrogenic disease. Anyone wishing to become a member ofthe society should write to Dr. K. W. G. Heathfield, the secre-tary, at 129 Harley Street, London W.1.
Royal Infirmary.MILLER, PATRICIA A. R., M.B. St. And., M.R.C.O.G. : consultant obste-
trician and gynaecologist, Stirlingshire area.PULLEN, HERBERT, M.B. Edin., M.R.C.P.E., D.T.M. & H.: consultant in
infectious diseases, Seacroft Hospital, Leeds.REES, J. R., M.D. Cantab., M.R.C.P. : consultant physician, United
Bristol Hospitals.ROGERS, W. J. B., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. : consultant child
psychiatrist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.
South Western Regional Hospital Board:AcHESON, R. R., M.B. Belf., F.R.C.S.E., D.o.: consultant ophthalmologist,
South Somerset clinical area.ALLBN, ELAINE M., M.B. Cantab., M.R.C.P., D.OBST.: consultant clinical
neurophysiologist, Plymouth.CHAKRABORTY, A. N., M.B. Calcutta, F.R.C.S.E., D.L.O. : consultant
E.N.T. surgeon, West Cornwall clinical area.DuNN, WILLIAM, M.B. St. And., D.P.M. D.OBST.: consultant
psychiatrist, Devon and Exeter clinical area.HALL, F. G., M.B. Lond., F.F.A. R.c.s.: consultant anaesthetist) Yeovil
area.
HAMILTON, S. G. I., M.CHIR. Cantab., F.R.C.S.: consultant generalsurgeon, West Cornwall clinical area.
HoRTON, I. A., M.B., B.sc. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.P.M. : consultant psychia-trist, Devon and Exeter clinical area.
ORMEROD, T. P., M.D. Lond., M.R.C.P., D.C.H.: consultant generalphysician, North Gloucestershire clinical area.
RANKIN, N. E., M.B. Lond., M.R.C.PATH. : consultant pathologist, SouthSomerset clinical area.
ROE, P. F., M.A. Cantab., M.D. Edin., M.R.C.P.G. : consultant geria-trician, South Somerset clinical area.
RUTTER, M. J., M.B. Lond., F.F.R.: consultant radiologist, NorthDevon and Exeter clinical area.
WALTERS, RUTH M., M.B. Brist., D.P.M., D.C.H. : consultant psychiatrist,Stoke Park hospital group.
WINDSOR, A. C. M., M.B. Wales, M.R.C.P., M.R.C.P.G. : consultantgeriatrician, Bath clinical area.
Dr. R. J. Glaser has been elected vice-president of the Common-wealth Fund.
The American Public Health Association is consideringabstracts of papers for inclusion in the medical-care section pro-gramme of its annual meeting which is to be held from Oct. 26to 30 in Houston, Texas. Forms may be had from Dr. RosemaryA. Stevens at Yale School of Medicine, 60 College Street, NewHaven, Connecticut 06510.
Diary of the Week
NOV. 30 TO DEC. 6Sunday, 30thPOSTGRADUATE MEDICINE
10.10 A.M. (Scottish and Tyne Tees Television.) Rubella in Pregnancy.(Repeat.)
Monday, 1stROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, Ducane Road, London W.12
4 P.M. Prof. A. P. Waterson: Viral Hepatitis and Hepatitis Viruses.
Tuesday, 2ndBRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION
5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, LondonW.C.I.) Dr. J. Diamond: Synaptic Transmission in theCentral Nervous System.
INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY, St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of theSkin, Lisle Street, London W.C.2
4.30 P.M. Dr. R. H. Meara: Unusual Eruptions Seen in Children.
Wednesday, 3rdROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
London W.C.24 P.M. Mr. A. R. Calo: Fate and Organisation of Venous and Arterial
Thrombi. (Erasmus Wilson demonstration.)INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY
4.30 P.M. Dr. R. W. Riddell: Diseases Caused by Fungi.INSTITUTE OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST, Brompton Hospital, London
S.W.35 P.M. Dr. E. E. Keal: Suppurative Pneumonia and Lung Abscess.
INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY, National Hospital, Queen Square, LondonW.C.1
6 P.M. Dr. A. E. Coppen: Biogenic Amines.7 P.M. Prof. F. A. Jenner: Biological Rhythms. (Sandoz Foundation
lectures.)INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY, 10 Henrietta Street, London W.C.2
5 P.M. Dr. A. R. Harrison: Renal Failure of Surgical Origin.ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray’s Inn Road, London W.C.1
5.15 P.M. Dr. John Hardwicke: Proteinuria.UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
5 P.M. (Nuffield Department of Medicine, Radcliffe Infirmary.)Dr. A. G. M. Weddell: Mouse as a Model for StudyingLeprosy.
MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH8.30 P.M. (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.) Sir Michael
Woodruff: Organ Transplantation.POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE
12.55 P.M. (Scottish and Tyne Tees Television.) Bacillary Dysentery.
Thursday, 4thROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, 11 St. Andrew’s Place,
Regent’s Park, N.W.18.30 P.M. Dr. A. N. T. Meneces: Influence of War on Medicine.
(Fitzpatrick lecture.)ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
5.30 P.M. Miss Esme Hadfield: Study of Adenocarcinoma of theParanasal Sinuses in Woodworkers in the Furniture Industry.(Hunterian lecture.)
BRITISH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION5.30 P.M. (Institute of Child Health.) Dr. K. L. Manchester: Regula-
tion by Insulin of Protein and Aminoacid Metabolism.UNITED OXFORD HOSPITALS
6 P.M. (Radcliffe Infirmary.) Mr. R. B. Zachary, Mr. J. B. Penny-backer, Dr. D. W. Hide: Early Management of Spina Bifida.
LONDON MEDICAL GROUP6 P.M. (St. George’s Hospital Medical School, 9 Knightsbridge,
London S.W.I.) Dr. Michael Wilson: Communicating a BadPrognosis.
LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 38 P.M. Dr. G. T. Spencer: Ethics of Intensive Care.
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE5 P.M. (Physiology Department.) Prof. G. M. Carstairs: Role of
Behavioural Science in Medical Education.
Friday, 5thROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL
11 A.M. Mr. A. H. Hunt: Portacaval Shunts.4 P.M. Dr. J. D. Spillane: Iatrogenic Neurological Disease.
