HC Deb 01 December 1949 vol 470 c118W
99. Mr. R. Robinson

asked the Minister of Health why Chloromycetin is no longer available to patients under the National Health Service in cases where it is prescribed by their doctors.

Mr. Blenkinsop

To ensure that this scarce and expensive drug is used to the best advantage, I have arranged to purchase all available supplies and to distribute them through regional hospital board centre:. The boards have discretion to make supplies available through the distribution centres to practitioners in domiciliary practice in exceptional cases.

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