§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the results of his Department's evaluation of the resource management initiative.
§ Mr. FreemanThe joint evaluation of the resource management initiative six pilot schemes has not been concluded by the Department and the joint consultants committee. The Department is also funding an independent evaluation of the resource management initiative by the health economics research group, Brunel university. Its interim report was published on 18 July 1989. In addition, the Department helped to defray the cost of disseminating the central consultants and specialists committee evaluation of the initiative's six pilot sites. This report was published in October 1989. Copies of both these reports are being placed in the Library.