Lord Winstanleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are the relative costs to public funds of identical prescriptions dispensed by hospital pharmacists and by pharmacists under contract to family practitioner committees.
§ Lord TrefgarneI regret that the information needed to compare directly the costs of dispensing an individual prescription in a hospital and in a retail pharmacy is not available centrally. It could be obtained only by special inquiry and at disproportionate cost.