HC Deb 25 May 1971 vol 818 cc69-70W
Mr. Meacher

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services on what grounds certain specified medical conditions are excluded from exemption from prescription charges.

Mr. Alison

The representatives of the medical profession, who are understandably unwilling that doctors should have to make discretionary judgments as to individual patients to be exempted, do not feel that they can accept responsibility for identifying for the purpose of exemption from prescription charges other conditions than those specified in Regulaiton 7(1)(d) of the National Health

by the Government Actuary since he published his third survey in 1968, but the possibility of a new survey is being considered.