Nhs And Private Health Treatment In Blackburn

EDM number 730 in 1991-92, proposed by Jack Straw on 20/02/1992.

That this House notes that a Blackburn obstetrics and gynaecological surgeon, Mr Salim Najia, whose NHS waiting list exceeds two years is to be paid by the NHS to carry out the same operations privately at a total cost to the NHS of about ú22,000, that this surgeon has the longest waiting list of any obstetrics and gynaecological surgeon in the NHS in Blackburn and that Mr David Goodall one of those other surgeons is reported as denying that he or his colleagues had been consulted about the problem; believes that it is wholly unacceptable for a surgeon to be allowed financially to profit in this way from his overlong waiting list, that such a practice is bound to give incentive to doctors to keep their NHS waiting lists long; calls for the banning of this practice by the Secretary of State of Health, and an enquiry into why it was not possible to reduce these lists within the NHS; and congratulates the Lancashire Evening Telegraph on its view that "it is enough, we think, to make the repeated claims of government commitment to the NHS look most sick".

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.