§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, in the light of the recommendation in the final report of the ad hoc working party on retinitis pigmentosa that a computerised central register of cases be established, any progress has been made in the creation of such a register.
§ Mr. MoyleThis is just one out of a series of recommendations in which the working party has defined a strategy to govern research into retinitis pigmentosa. It would be for research workers and clinicians to make proposals within that strategy, which would then be considered
544Wfigures for the revenue for prescription charges, dental and optical charges and other charges, on the same price basis and for the same years.
§ Mr. MoyleThe table below sets out the gross expenditure on the National Health Service in England—expressed in Public Expenditure Survey 1977 prices—for each of the years 1970–71 to 1976–77 inclusive, together with the figures for revenue from prescription charges—pharmaceutical services—dental and optical charges and other charges, comprising recoveries in respect of pay and amenity beds and other services in hospitals and welfare foods, for the same years and on the same price basis:
by the Medical Research Council and my Department, as appropriate.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, in the light of his answer of 17th May 1978 to the hon. Member for Grimsby, he knows of any cases in which the methods of the Opos Eye Clinic are in fact used in the United Kingdom by consultant ophthalmologists under the Health Service.