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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jack Straw20/02/1992BlackburnProposed
Harry Barnes21/02/1992North East DerbyshireSigned
Peter Hardy24/02/1992WentworthSigned
Doug Hoyle24/02/1992Warrington NorthSigned
Ian McCartney24/02/1992MakerfieldSigned
Alan Meale24/02/1992MansfieldSigned
Bill Michie24/02/1992Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Frank Cook24/02/1992Stockton NorthSigned
Tony Banks24/02/1992Newham North WestSigned
John Evans25/02/1992St Helens NorthSigned
Jack Thompson25/02/1992WansbeckSigned
John Battle25/02/1992Leeds WestSigned
Win Griffiths25/02/1992BridgendSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie25/02/1992Glasgow, PollokSigned
David Clelland25/02/1992Tyne BridgeSigned
Keith Bradley25/02/1992Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Dave Nellist25/02/1992Coventry South EastSigned
Eddie Loyden25/02/1992Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Dennis Skinner25/02/1992BolsoverSigned
Terry Patchett25/02/1992Barnsley EastSigned
Ronnie Campbell25/02/1992Blyth ValleySigned
Gordon Oakes26/02/1992HaltonSigned
Dennis Turner26/02/1992Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Huw Edwards26/02/1992MonmouthSigned
Alice Mahon26/02/1992HalifaxSigned
Terry Lewis26/02/1992WorsleySigned
Eric Illsley26/02/1992Barnsley CentralSigned
Tom Cox27/02/1992TootingSigned
Tommy Graham27/02/1992Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Audrey Wise03/03/1992PrestonSigned
John Cummings05/03/1992EasingtonSigned
Barry Sheerman09/03/1992HuddersfieldSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours12/03/1992WorkingtonSigned
Harry Cohen12/03/1992LeytonSigned

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