§ Mr. Sheermanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to encourage regional health authorities to use the most recent version of the international classification of diseases code to improve the quality of HAA and HIPE data with a view to resolving current problems of inferior quality of data for record linkage purposes.
§ Mrs. CurrieAll the regional health authorities used the most recent version of the international classification of diseases to code their hospital activity analysis data. We have not received any reports that the hospital activity analysis data are of inferior quality.