Brain: Injuries
Health
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to address the disparity between members of the armed forces and civilian patients who sustain head injury in arrangements for routine screening for post-traumatic hypopituitarism.
Paul Burstow (Minister of State (Care Services), Health; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
It is the responsibility of those health professionals involved in treating patients with head injuries to decide on whether to screen for post-traumatic hypopituitarism.