§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether she will conduct a review of health authorities' purchasing policies to identify the extent to which elderly people are being excluded from certain treatment on grounds of their age;
(2) what action she intends to take to establish whether health authorities are issuing contracts which exclude people from treatment on grounds of their age.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThere is no need to conduct such a review. The National Health Service Executive, through its monitoring of district health authorities' purchasing plans and its corporate contracts with regional health authorities, already reviews and monitors annually the purchasing intentions of DHAs and general practitioner fundholders.