§ Mr. Roebuckasked the Minister of Health if he will ensure that no pressure to co-operate in publicity is put upon 207W National Health Service patients undergoing advanced surgery or upon their families; and whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the advice his Department has tendered to hospitals on this subject.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonI would refer my hon. Friend to my statement on 6th May in which I said that I wished to protect the interests of the patient and his relatives and those of the donor. My advice cannot go beyond activities which are under the control of the hospital authorities. I do not think there would be any useful purpose served by publishing details of this advice. It is not customary to publish details of advice in a matter of this kind.—[Vol. 764, c. 37.]