HC Deb 30 June 1980 vol 987 c448W
Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will take steps to require that, on prescriptions written by general practitioners within the National Health Service, the names of products be either typed or clearly written in block capital letters.

Dr. Vaughan

I fully share the hon. Member's concern that general practitioners' prescriptions should always be legible, but I do not think that this objective would be furthered by imposing a statutory requirement.