asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for health authorities to display prominently in appropriate places a summary of the services available under the Health Act, and if he will have published an explanatory leaflet on the Act.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers - Health Act Services.
Arrangements for publicity are primarily a matter for each health authority. I do not think that, in general, it would be practicable to arrange for an adequate summary of the services to be displayed as suggested but I am sending to each health authority drafts of two detailed leaflets which I have prepared, in which they will insert certain particulars appropriate to local conditions, for issue by them to interested persons. When these leaflets are available to the general medical practitioners in each area, through whom in most cases patients will be referred for services, to midwives, to home assistance officers, to hospital almoners, etc., and when they can be obtained on demand from health authority offices, I feel that very wide publicity will be achieved.