Martin Webster is a founder member of a consortium of doctors seeking to build Glasgow's first major private hospital. He is also a National Health Service consultant at the Cannisburn Hospital, Glasgow. This evening in a lecture theatre at Glasgow's Royal Infirmary, he tries to persuade fellow consultants, hospital doctors, nurses and ancillary workers who are opposed to his scheme, that private and National Health Service hospitals should exist side by side. With him is Dr Stanley Balfour-Lynn , European Director of American Medical International, which owns or manages 120 private hospitals around the world, and would like to expand into Scotland.