§ Mr. Alfred MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 15 May,Official Report, column 479, if he will make it his policy (a) to collate statistics and (b) to establish estimated costs in respect of statistics in relation to the incidence of pressure sores among NHS hospital patients. [30212]
§ Mr. BowisThe Department of Health is seeking to reduce the burden of data collection by the national health service and rationalise data flows within the NHS and between the NHS and the centre. The collection of additional information on pressure sores would not be in line with this policy.