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Mr. Harry Barnes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nuclear magnetic resonance scanners are possessed by the National Health Service; and what proportions of these are designed for use solely to identify epilepsy.
Mr. Dorrell
I am advised that magnetic resonance scanning is not a useful means of diagnosing epilepsy since most people with epilepsy would have a normal scan.