HC Deb 10 April 2001 vol 366 cc589-90W
15. Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent investigations he has made into the outcomes of the use of placebo(a) medicines and (b) surgery. [156298]

Mr. Hutton

The Department, via the NHS Research and Development Health Technology Assessment Programme, funded a systematic review of the role of expectancies in the placebo effect and their use in the delivery of health care. The review was published as a monograph in March 1999, and a copy has been placed in the Library.

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