§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he will make it mandatory for the price of the ingredients of a prescription to be shown on the receipt given to the patient.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe additional time and expense in requiring pharmacists, dispensing doctors and appliance contractors to calculate the ingredient cost and to issue receipts to patients for more than 380 million prescription items dispensed each year would not make the best use of the resources available to the NHS.