| Description Of Item | Copies of five letters on the state of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, its need for modernisation and particularly the shortage of nurses; Lamb's reply to the response by the managers of the Royal Infirmary who had not addressed the nurse shortage; his repeated request for comparative data from the Department of Health; to Sir Ian Clark Hutchison MP requesting the data; and with the comparative data having obtained it from Hutchison. Includes later cuttings of letters by Lamb on the morale of staff in the NHS [National Health Service] and by I E W Gilmour on waste reduction to reduce the NHS budget. |