West Kent Health Authority

EDM number 637 in 1995-96, proposed by Brian Sedgemore on 19/03/1996.

That this House deplores the projected 1995-96 overspend of ú3.3 million by fundholding general practitioners in the West Kent area; notes that the overspend will be met from the budget of the West Kent Health Authority; declares that the cause of this lamentable state of affairs is the failure of the crude internal market system imposed upon the National Health Service by Her Majesty's Government; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to take immediate steps to end this wasteful uncontrolled system and to introduce proper systems of accountability to allow doctors to practise medicine rather than business economics.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.