Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 March 1965.
Yes. I can assure my right hon. Friend that I have already told them—I think that I said this in my spech—that I should have ideas of my own which I should want to inject into the discussion. There is no difficulty at the moment about the provision of health centres from the legislative point of view. Local authorities are willing to build them and doctors are willing to work through them. As for the point about a salaried service, my right hon. Friend will be as glad as I am that this is now a subject which the profession itself has said that it wishes to discuss. Of course, it is anybody's guess how many doctors would prefer to be salaried, but there is no doubt that quite a substantial proportion of doctors today would prefer to be on a salary. Certainly we can discuss this matter.