§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will consider taking further steps to make fuller use of the employment medical advisory service and to improve liaison with those responsible for primary medical care, both doctors and nurses, so that illnesses and remedial medical condition sustained through the patient's work can be corrected and general preventative steps taken to avoid recurrence and spread to fellow workers.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI already attach importance to such liaison and good relations have been established, particularly through the use of postgraduate centres. The relatively small scale of the EMAS organisation—fewer
364WThese allocations have assisted schemes of training, retraining, resettlement and job creation for the unemployed and those threatened with unemployment.