§ Mr. A. Lewisasked the Minister of Health why, in view of the facts that the National Health Insurance Acts provide for comprehensive medical treatment for everybody in need of treatment, that in many instances National Health Service doctors are unable to prescribe treatment, that people have to go to clinics and other organisations for treatment and that old-age pensioners and those on National Assistance are unable to recover 112W payments made for certificates, medicines and treatment, he will not seek powers to amend the Acts to deal with these anomalies.
§ Mr. PowellI do not accept that National Health Service doctors are unable to prescribe necessary treatment.