§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to limit the charges being made by some general practitioners for providing patients with sick notes.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe certificates which a doctor shall issue to his patients free of charge are prescribed in schedule 3 to the National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations, 1974, subject to the circumstances specified in paragraph 31 of schedule 1. We have no proposals for extending the scope of schedule 3.