HC Deb 26 July 1976 vol 916 c112W
Mr. Hordern

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing the number of administrators, the number of general practitioners, and the number of surgeons in the National Health Service each year since 1965 to the latest convenient date.

Dr. Owen

Following is the information up to 1974. The 1975 statistics are currently being collected and processed.

pay to National Health Service hospitals the savings which arise on national insurance benefits where patients are in hospital for more than eight weeks; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Orme

No. The provisions of the national insurance scheme have regard to the existence of the national health and other public services.