HC Deb 19 December 2003 vol 416 c186W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has commissioned for an evaluation of diagnostic and treatment centres. [144949]

Mr. Hutton

An evaluation of National Health Service treatment centres has been commissioned from a consortium made up of University College London and the University of Southampton, under the NHS service delivery and organisation research programme. The evaluation began in March 2003 and is being carried out over three years.