HC Deb 21 July 1993 vol 229 cc212-3W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to establish treatment centres for elective surgery in England for(a) cataract surgery, (b) major joint surgery and (c) hernias and varicose vein surgery.

Mr. Sackville

We have no plans to do so. It is for health authorities to decide whether the establishment of treatment centres providing certain surgical procedures would be in the best interests of the populations they serve.