HC Deb 15 December 1986 vol 107 c413W
Sir Dudley Smith

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will consider special medical provision for those victims of crimes who have sustained brain damage.

Mrs. Currie

It has always been a principle of the National Health Service that patients are treated according to their medical needs rather than the way in which their illness or injury has arisen. It would not be in the best interests of the patients concerned to abandon this principle.