The Stoke Postgraduate Medical Centre.

their educational programmes, possibly by supplying speakers and material. Both the Brook and Lewisham hospitals have been fortunate in receiving grants from the King's Fund, and an excellent centre has already been opened at Lewisham. Brighton have received £15,000 from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and has been able to more than double this sum with local support: a major centre is under construction and will be opened next spring. Only Canterbury have been unsuccessful in obtaining a capital grant from any source: we can only hope that, in view of the exceptional interest of the programme which they have developed and the clear evidence it provides of fresh thinking, they will be more fortunate before very long. The other groups in which Clinical Tutors have been appointed are Medway, Dartford, Farnborough and Hastings. We are hoping to include Orpington and Sidcup (both due to be rebuilt before very long) and Tunbridge Wells soon. In the latter group, of course, a great deal of postgraduate and research work is already being done at the Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead. At the new Medway hospital (which is being gradually upgraded from the old R.N. Hospital, Chatham) an excellent centre is being made out of the small separate building which used to contain the officers' billiard room and a large ante-room: these are being turned into a small lecture theatre with a club-room and library. At Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, an old ward block has been converted into a small centre. Formal postgraduate teaching, meetings and discussions are taking place in nearly all the other Groups in the Region. Some, like Bermondsey and Camberwell, are now closely linked with teaching hospitals. Others, like Greenwich, face early rebuilding and at St. Alfege's there are plans for a teaching centre for both doctors and nurses in the new hospital. The whole of this regional activity is under the surveillance of the Regional Postgraduate Committee, on which there are representatives of the teaching hospitals, the Royal Colleges and the College of General Practitioners. The Committee exists to define objectives, coordinate activities and allocate resources. We have two teaching hospitals in this region and they take a close interest in regional education. As the Colleges are represented, the committee should have cognizance of all that goes on in the various specialties but unfortunately this has not always been the case. It should surely be able to prevent the appointment of a plethora of tutors in one centre and to maintain a reasonable balance between the different interests at each one, as so many of these are clearly complementary to each other. It is apparent that a strong Regional Postgraduate Committee, representing all interests in this way, is essential if co-ordinated progress is to be made towards an objective for the region as a whole.