§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will investigate complaints that there is overprescribing of drugs to patients over 65 years of age.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergPrescribing practice is basically a matter for the clinical judgment of the doctor concerned. Specific complaints about individual cases are a matter for the relevant family practitioner committee—in the case of a general practitioner—or health authority—for a hospital doctor—in the first instance.