HC Deb 02 February 1994 vol 236 c722W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidelines have been issued as to the distance a consultant covering a paediatric unit can live or work away from that unit when on call for that unit.

Dr. Mawhinney

Employing bodies are encouraged, when drawing up consultants' contracts of employment, to include a requirement to live within a 10-mile radius of their place of work.