§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans there are for setting up more National Health Service nursing homes; and whether general practitioners would be expected to carry out services in relation to the care of patients in such nursing homes within their present contracts.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergIn addition to the three experimental nursing homes which my right hon. Friend described to the House on 4 February—[Vol. 17, c. 558]—we are hoping to set up a second set of experimental schemes for elderly patients with psychiatric disorders. These schemes will not necessarily take the form of nursing homes, and we may try out more than one pattern of care. The question of payment for the general practitioner care given to patients in the three nursing homes now being set up is under consideration.