§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of cases in each health board in Scotland where sudden heart attack patients have been refused access to intensive care hospital treatment on account of age; and what was the determining age in each case.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe question whether particular patients should be treated in hospital intensive care units is a clinical decision for the consultants concerned in the light of all the circumstances of each case.