Written question asked by Lord Ashley of Stoke , in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 December 1991. It was answered by Stephen Dorrell (Conservative) on Thursday, 12 December 1991 on behalf of the Department of Health.

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Question: What is his estimate of the amount of damage to patients, and the number affected that has occurred as a result of excessive medical radiation; if he will conduct an inquiry into the amount of radiation hospitals are giving their patients by X-rays; & make it his policy to identify hospitals which, according to the National Radiological Board, might be giving their patients too much radiation. - Inc ref to National Radiological Protection Board/Royal College of Radiologists report "Patient Dose Reduction in Diagnostic Radiology" (copy in Library.

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