§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he is now in a position to publish guidelines on the duties and responsibilities of practice nurses and the extent to which nurses employed by health authorities are responsible to doctors in the practices they work with.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe have at present no plans to publish guidelines on the duties and responsibilities of practice nurses. Nurses employed by health authorities are responsible to those authorities for their work, but are376W expected to develop effective liaison arrangements with the general medical practitioners to whose practices they are attached.