§ Mr. Parkerasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that out-patients from London hospitals, who had been told to attend their local hospitals during the war, have now been told to go to a local doctor; and that this change is causing discontent owing to the consequent inability to obtain special treatment and the extra cost; and whether he can review the civilian medical services to correct such anomalies?
§ Miss HorsbrughNo instruction has been given under the Emergency Hospital Scheme that persons who normally attend at hospitals for out-patient treatment should go to a local doctor instead. I am aware that at the beginning of the war some London hositals temporarily closed their out-patient departments of their own volition but I understand that most of these have now been reopened. The last part of the question does not, therefore, arise.