§ Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Minister of Health how many inquiries he has ordered during the last year into complaints by patients or their dependants against the National Health Service.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonTable 36 of my Department's Annual Report for 1964 gives the number of appeals heard during that year on my instructions in connection with complaints investigated by Executive Councils. Though I have not had occasion during the last year to order any formal inquiries into complaints about other branches of the service, I have from time to time requested Health Service authorities to investigate complaints brought to my notice.