HC Deb 16 July 1974 vol 877 c69W
42. Mr. Edge

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will seek powers to prevent National Health Service doctors from removing patients from their lists against the patients' will.

Dr. Owen

No. The long-standing arrangements permit patients to remove themselves from a doctor's list as freely as the doctor can have them removed, and I consider it important to retain both these freedoms.