General Practitioners

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 February 1991.

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Photo of Mr William Waldegrave Mr William Waldegrave , Bristol West 12:00, 5 February 1991

The benefits of both systems are becoming increasingly understood. Both systems are voluntary, but tremendous benefits are available to patients from the GP fund-holding scheme—a matter which I hope that Opposition Members will consider in due course, because it would be paradoxical if that aspect, which is aimed at giving help to patients and those most directly representative of them, should run into opposition from the Labour party.