HC Deb 28 July 1981 vol 9 c434W
Sir David Price

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the new district health authorities will employ community physicians.

Dr. Vaughan

Each district health authority will employ a district medical officer, who will have primary responsibility for community medicine in the district. In addition, individual District Health Authorities will employ Specialists in Community Medicine in accordance with their own assessment of local needs and of the most effective way of meeting them.