ROYAL HOSPITAL, HASLAR

Early day motion 134, tabled 16 December 1998 by Peter Viggers (Conservative). Signed by 12 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Conservative 8, Liberal Democrat 2, DUP 1, Labour 1.