HC Deb 17 June 1985 vol 81 cc47-8W
Mr. Mason

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services why his Department no longer keeps central records of hospital waiting lists for particular hospitals; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. John Patten

In-patient waiting list statistics for individual hospitals are available centrally. They show the waiting lists for individual specialties but not for particular operations or diagnoses.

indicate a causal relationship between a product and a reported reaction. It would be particularly unwise to draw any inference about the safety of pyridoxine from the reports on combination products.

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