HC Deb 01 July 1980 vol 987 cc481-2W
26. Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what responses he has had to his consultation letter on revising the arrangements for approval of clinical trials under the Medicines Act; from whom; and if he will make a statement.

Dr. Vaughan

The following bodies have to date replied to the consultation letter, a copy of which was reproduced in my reply to the right hon. Gentleman, the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) on 7 May 1980.—[Vol. 984, c. 154–9.] I shall be making a statement when I have considered these and other expected replies:

  • The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
  • The British Association for Chemical Specialities
  • The British Dental Association
  • The British Dental Trade Association
  • The British Association of Dermatologists
  • The British Medical Association
  • The Company Chemists' Association Ltd.
  • The Consumers' Association
  • Hoechst U.K. Ltd.
  • National Consumer Council
  • The Patients' Association
  • Pfizer Ltd.
  • The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland
  • Queens University of Belfast, Dept. of Therapeutics and Pharmacology
  • The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • The Royal College of Pathologists
  • The Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
  • The Royal College of Radiologists
  • St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, Dept. of Medicine
  • University of London, Joint Academic Unit of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Physiology