Family Health Services Authorities

HC Deb 16 July 1990 vol 176 cc410-1W

Mr. Anthony Coombs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will announce the names of the chairmen of the new family health services authorities.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I have placed in the Library a list of the appointments made with effect from 17 September 1990, the date on which the new authorities come into being.

Good quality primary health care is fundamental to the success of our health service. We attach great importance to the enhanced work and wider responsibilities of the newly constituted family health services authorities. The chairman's role is a challenging one in implementing the national health service changes for the general benefit of patients.