HC Deb 07 December 1998 vol 322 c74W
Dr. Brand

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS general practitioners have been found to be in breach of paragraph 43 of their terms of service for issuing a private prescription to patients on their list for each of the last 10 years. [61798]

Mr. Milburn

We do not have reliable information about decisions taken before 1 April 1995 (when the Health Services Appeal Authority came into existence), but since that date there have been no recorded instances of a general practitioner being found in breach of Paragraph 43 of the terms of service.