Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee

HC Deb 27 June 1955 vol 543 cc4-5W

Mr. Hastings

asked the Minister of Health what questions he put officially to the Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council during 1954 and what advice he received from it.

Mr. Iain Macleod

The Committee, together with the Standing Medical and Nursing Advisory Committees, was asked for advice about the adoption of a standard system for settling responsibility for the custody and issue of dangerous drugs, and scheduled poisons in hospitals, and also for recording the requisitioning and issuing of them. The three Committees have formed a joint sub-committee for this purpose. No other questions were referred to the Committee during the year, and no advice was received from it.