HC Deb 07 July 1993 vol 228 cc159-60W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the mechanisms that he has put in place or proposes for the patients of general practitioner fund holders to have an involvement in decisions about their doctors' health care purchasing priorities.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

It is generally recognised that GPs as the gatekeepers of the NHS are uniquely placed to improve patients' choice of good quality services. It would be inappropriate for me to interfere with this relationship.

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