§ 52. Mr. Severasked the Secretary of State for Social Services which employing authority in the National Health Service advises his Department on matters concerned with the integration of primary and secondary care.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe Department seeks advice formally and informally from a wide range of individuals and organisations, including health authorities. So far as the operational responsibility for integrating primary and secondary care services is concerned, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. McKay) on 30 November 1982.—[Vol. 33, c.125.]