HC Deb 18 July 1991 vol 195 cc286-7W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost of the Brunel university health economics research group's evaluation of the resource management initiative.

Mr. Dorrell

A total of £250,000.

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what policy conclusions the national health service management executive has drawn from the Brunel university health economics research group's evaluation of the resource management initiative.

Mr. Dorrell

The final report of the Brunel university health economics research group's evaluation of the resource management initiative provides retrospective support for the decision to launch the intiative taken in November 1986. The report offers detailed and helpful suggestions about the implementation of resource management, and we have distributed copies to all 270 hospitals in England that have embarked upon the resource management programme.