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Elective Surgery Treatment Centres

Volume 229: debated on Wednesday 21 July 1993

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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.

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.