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Primary Care Trusts

Volume 447: debated on Monday 19 June 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts are operating panels to review GP referrals to consultants; and if she will make a statement. (68238)

The information about which primary care trusts are operating referral panels is not held centrally.

The Department is clear that referrals to community-based clinical assessment services, and other such centres, should happen only where it adds genuine clinical value for patients.