§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance she has issued on the scope of community health services to be covered by general practitioner fund holding from April; and whether health visitors, district nursing, occupational therapy, speech therapy, physiotherapy or community psychiatric nursing services are to be included in general practitioner fund holding financed services.
§ Dr. MawhinneyGuidance is to be issued soon. Occupational therapy, speech therapy and physiotherapy are already included in the fund holding scheme. Health visiting, district nursing, community psychiatric nursing as well as community mental handicap nursing are to he added from April 1993.