§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what effect the National Health Service reforms will have on the current situation in which drug addicts living in one health authority area are treated in another without refund because of the restrictive prescribing policies in the former.
§ Mr. FreemanUnder the proposed reforms of the National Health Service, district health authorities will have powers to charge each other for patients from outside their administrative boundaries, either under contract or, exceptionally, through extra-contractual arrangements.