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Private Patients

Volume 975: debated on Wednesday 12 December 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how he will ensure that the use of National Health Service facilities by private patients will not prejudice services for other patients; and if he will give an undertaking that there will be full public consultation before he authorises private practice within National Health Service hospitals.

Both these points arise from part II of the Health Services Bill, and Ministers will deal with them during the debates on the Bill.