§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will issue revised guidelines as to the matters with which health authorities should deal in public.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThere are no current plans to do so.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent guidance she has issued to health authorities on purchasing.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe NHS management executive's priorities and planning guidance for 1993-94 issued in July 1992 (EL(92)47), a copy of which is available in the Library, required regions to take a range of actions to develop the purchasing role of health authorities. Over the last two years the NHS management executive has also issued good practice guidance on several purchasing and contracting issues.