§ Mr. Gordon Brownasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has investigated the capital and revenue costs of nuclear magnetic resonance equipment, with a view to its being used in National Health Service hospitals.
§ Mr. John MacKayWhere nuclear magnetic resonance equipment—NMR—is at present in use in the NHS it is employed in basic research supported, on a United Kingdom basis, by the Medical Research Council and other Government funds. It would be premature to consider the use of such equipment in a routine service role meantime.