§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many field trials of possible new National Health Service 104W management organisations have been carried out by his Department; which centres have been used; what is the number and category of personnel deployed; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir K. Joseph:Testing is taking place in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Doncaster, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Hillingdon, and Lambeth and Southwark. It is being conducted by teams comprising departmental officers, seconded National Health Service staff and management consultants, who number 14 people in all. On completion the steering committee of the management study will consider what arrangements to recommend.
§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will place in the Library the hypothesis document on management plans for the National Health Service, together with the explanatory second document which explains the technical terms of the first, both of which he has now received from the firm of consultants advising him on managerial efficiency.
§ Sir K. Joseph:The document referred to is a statement of working hypotheses prepared by the National Health Service Reorganisation Management Study Group for use in the study programme. A glossary of management terms was prepared at an earlier stage of the study for use by the steering committee. I am placing a copy of both documents in the Library.