§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will reconsider his decision not to allow general practitioners to become members of local community health councils.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergCommunity health council members are appointed to keep local health services under review, and in our view it is not appropriate for them to include any of the NHS employees or family practitioners whose responsibility it is to provide those services. There is no objection to an NHS employee or family practitioners being appointed to a CHC other than that which matches his employing or contractual authority.