HC Deb 03 March 1989 vol 148 c369W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the district health authorities within the Trent regional health authority who employ full-time specialist sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia counsellors.

Mr. Freeman

Nottingham health authority employs one specialist nurse counsellor on sickle cell disease and plans to extend the service to thalassaemia in June 1989. Elsewhere in the region counselling on both sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia is provided by the relevant clinician haematologist, geneticist, obstetrician or paediatrician, or the patient's practitioner.

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