§ 102. Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Health if, in view of the resignation of Dr. McKenna of Droitwich, he will make a statement as to Spa treatment under National Health Services.
§ Mr. BevanI think the doctor may have been under a misapprehension. For patients of the appropriate hospitals in the National Health Service requiring treatment of the Spa type, it is open to a Regional Hospital Board to arrange for130W convenient facilities for this treatment to be used, at the discretion of the medical staff of the hospital, to supplement the hospital's own resources. It is not a responsibility of the hospital service to provide treatment at Spa establishments otherwise than in this way.