HC Deb 17 January 1994 vol 235 cc385-6W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on cardiac surgeons' assistants.

Dr. Mawhinney

This interesting development is being evaluated at the Churchill John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford. The Royal College of Surgeons is closely involved in the scheme and it will be discussed with the medical profession in the joint consultants committee shortly.