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Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance has been offered to health authorities on the holding of pain clinics and the provision of pain management programmes.
Mr. Dorrell
The provision of services for diagnosis and relief of pain is a matter for individual health authorities to determine, taking account of local needs, priorities and resources and the views of the medical profession locally.