HC Deb 01 August 1972 vol 842 cc83-4W
77. Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will state the number of items prescribed by general practitioners and dispensed by National Health Service pharmacists in Newcastle-under-Lyme in each year from 1964.

Mr. Alison

Information is not available in the form required. The number of prescriptions dispensed annually by chemists under the National Health Service in the area of the Stoke-on-Trent executive council, which in-cludes Newcastle-under-Lyme, is as follows:

1964 1,491,000
1965* 1,757,000
1966 1,871,000
1967 1,896,000
1968 1,767,000
1969 1,705,000
1970 1,741,000
1971 1,698,000
* Change of boundary.