§ Miss Emma NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to investigate ways in which the families of individuals who are seriously ill can be given better financial security.
§ Mr. DorrellLife-threatening illnesses vary greatly in the speed with which they need to be treated in order to avert the threat. The National Health Service is founded on the principle that help should be given most rapidly to those patients whose condition requires the earliest clinical intervention. That will always be its objective.