HC Deb 23 May 1980 vol 985 c451W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if his Department has received, and what study it has made of, " National Health Issues—The British Experience" by Cotton M. Lindsay and the concluding essay by Arthur Seldon; and what conclusion it has come to.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

I have noted this review of the National Health Service with interest. It deals mainly with acute hospital care for people of working age and touches on problems that are common to health systems in most industrialised countries. The analysis points up some of the issues that are relevant for studying health care financing in the longer term.