HC Deb 10 March 1969 vol 779 c224W
Mr. Fortescue

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to ensure that doctors who dispense their own prescriptions to the public use metric rather than imperial weights.

Mr. Crossman

I am sending the hon. Member a copy of a notice sent by executive councils to all doctors who dispense for their patients under the National Health Service drawing their attention to the need for all medicines supplied by them to be in metric quantities.