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Primary Care Trusts: Planning

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 18 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which primary care trusts (PCTs) are (a) reviewing and (b) formally consulting on the future provision of hospital-based services; and by what means she proposes to inform Parliament on progress and decisions made in each PCT area; (129903)

(2) which primary care trusts are (a) reviewing and (b) consulting on the provision of (i) acute services, (ii) accident and emergency provision and (iii) maternity provision in their areas.

Any proposals for the reconfiguration of services are a matter for the national health service locally.

There is a well established and well understood process for managing formal public consultations on proposals for major service change so that the public and other stakeholders can help to inform the local debate.