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Mr. Gareth Wardell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to establish treatment centres for elective surgery in England for (a) cataract surgery, (b) major joint surgery and (c) hernias and varicose vein surgery.
Mr. Sackville
We have no plans to do so. It is for health authorities to decide whether the establishment of treatment centres providing certain surgical procedures would be in the best interests of the populations they serve.