HC Deb 12 April 1976 vol 909 c913

Mr. Secretary Ennals, supported by Mr. Michael Foot, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Millan, Mr. Secretary John Morris, Mr. Joel Barnett, and Dr. David Owen, presented a Bill to make further provision with respect to the use or acquisition by private patients and others of facilities and supplies available under the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1973 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Acts 1947 to 1973; to control hospital building outside the National Health Service and provide for the amendment of enactments under which registration is a prerequisite for carrying on a nursing home or private hospital; and for those purposes to establish a Health Services Board: and the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed. [Bill 120.]