§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 6 December 2001,Official Report, column 487W, on patient consultations, what recent research his Department has carried out on the average length of patient consultation times with (a) GPs and (b) hospital consultants; and what the findings were. [24430]
§ Mr. HuttonThe Department has not conducted any recent research on how long general practitioners or hospital consultants currently spend on consultations.