§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will expedite his decision as to whether general practitioners may prescribe courses of hepatitis B vaccine to all the at-risk groups recommended by the British Medical Association, including policeman and prison staff.
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District health authorities having contractual arrangments with institutions outside the National Health Service to provide acute medical services in 1986 District Health Authority Hospital In-patient cases Out-patient attendances Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Northallerton St. John of God Hospital, Richmond 35 365 Airedale Sue Ryder Home, Keighley 52 0 Trent Regional Health Authority Sheffield St. Luke's Nursing Home, Sheffield 441 0 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge RAF Hospital, Ely 1,102 3,572 Norwich All Hallows Hospital, Bungay 105 0 North West Thames Regional Health Authority Hounslow and Spelthorne Trinity Hospice, London SW4 14 0 Riverside Trinity Hospice, London SW4 82 0 St. Christopher's Hospice, London SE26 1 0 North East Thames Regional Health Authority City and Hackney St. Joseph's Hospice, London E8 1,018 182 South East Thames Regional Health Authority Eastbourne Horder Centre for Arthritics, Crowborough 30 0 Greenwich Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, London SW15 1 0 West Lambeth St. Christopher's Hospice, London SE26 22 0 South West Thames Regional Health Authority South West Surrey Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere 28 993 King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst 0 121 North West Surrey Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, London SW15 1 0 West Surrey and North East Hants Tadworth Court Children's Hospital, Tadworth 2 0 Mid Surrey Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, London SW15 1 0 Hydon Hill Home, Godalming2 1 0 Chichester Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere 0 183 King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst 897 3,008 Mid-Downs King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst 131 512 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, London SW15 3 0 Grafton Manor, Towcester 1 0 Paxhill Park Nursing Home, Haywards Heath 1 0
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 2 November 1987]: The joint committee on vaccination and immunisation, which advises the health Departments on all aspects of immunisation, has all but finalised revised guidance on vaccination against hepatitis B. We hope to be able to gather all our own advice to promulgate this guidance at an early date.