HC Deb 25 July 1989 vol 157 cc672-3W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many National Health Service patients have been identified to have died because of delays in receiving radiotherapy doses due to(a) shortages of hospital physicists and (b) other causes.

Mr. Freeman

I am not aware of evidence of deaths attributable to these causes. If the hon. Member has a particular cause for concern, perhaps he will write to me.