HC Deb 09 March 1994 vol 239 c303W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she has studied the survey by Mr. Michael West and Mr. Rod Sheaff of the health services management unit at Manchester university into issues of probity and honesty in the NHS; and if she will make a statement.

Dr. Mawhinney

Yes. The survey of attitudes towards issues of probity among national health service chairmen and board members was commissioned by the NHS Management Executive's corporate governance task force who expressed the view in their reportthe attitudes of respondents to the survey, for the most part, supported a strict application of traditional rules of behaviour. I welcome that finding which is the foundation for the NHS code of conduct issued for comment on 13 January 1994.