§ 35. Mr. Kenneth Lewisasked the Minister of Health whether he will initiate a review of the National Health Service, taking into account local authority health services, with a view to looking at duplication.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonIn asking Hospital Boards to review their hospital plans I am emphasising the importance of their doing so, particularly in the geriatric and psychiatric fields, in close concert with the local authorities with health and 163W welfare responsibilities, and I am reminding them of the inter-action between hospital and general practice. In addition I propos to seek the collaboration of the authorities concerned in selected areas to prepare detailed integrated plans for comprehensive health care on the basis of joint studies.