PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
ROYAL HOSPITAL, HASLAR (16 December 1998)

That this House recognises the crucial contribution made to British armed forces by the Defence Medical Services; notes the current serious shortage of doctors, nurses and other medical staff in the Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force; recalls that the Royal Hospital Haslar was chosen in 1994 after extensive discussion as the single tri-service hospital and centre of medical excellence; observes that the Defence Medical College has been moved to a site adjacent to Haslar and that the Institute of Naval Medicine is also located in Haslar; agrees that Defence Medical Services should now be strengthened; and urges that this objective will not be achieved by closing the only tr-service hospital but by confirming its role and developing it as originally planned when the choice of Haslar was made.

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Sir Peter Viggers (Conservative)