HC Deb 19 December 1983 vol 51 cc57-8W
Mr. Wardell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the percentage of general practice pharmacists that label all dispensed medicines by mechanical rather than handwritten methods.

Mr. John Patten

The information requested is not available. I understand however that from 1 January 1984

Catering Domestic/Cleaning Laundry
District Health Authority Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts Total expenditure Private contracts
£ £ £ £ £ £
Northern Region
Hartlepool 537,381 901,446 12,281 126,579
North Tees 906,819 1,178,562 909 146,846 530
South Tees 2,037,738 15 2,411,899 25,565 224,869 4,636
East Cumbria 1,156,048 1,421,268 11,262 231,299 7,291
South Cumbria 919,863 865,446 4,688 182,404 5,564
West Cumbria 1,000,719 14,294 998,310 3,225 151,234 1,242
Darlington 1,147,414 1,206,131 13,456 362,198
Durham 929,285 1,177,931 1,739 37,355 4,165
North West Durham 658,122 839,854 5,804 127,178 251
South West Durham 1,425,858 1,747,123 12,398 165,060 359
Northumberland 2,988,546 2,930,542 8,196 388,364 1,924
Gateshead 1,120,006 1,589,213 24,564 103,068
Newcastle upon Tyne 3,810,687 556 5,027,269 55,437 706,865 191,820
North Tyneside 711,622 62 964,434 3,577 100,105 2,159
South Tyneside 821,258 1,198,146 21,739 194,795 933
Sunderland 2,302,985 8,475 2,953,707 16,386 446,206
Yorkshire Region
Hull 1,902,096 2,650,093 43,209 354,856 14,908
East Yorkshire 1,674,573 1,731,269 13,360 272,728 23,982
Grimsby 695,165 976,094 10,432 109,696 1,965
Scunthorpe 839,126 1,108,764 17,097 176,541 2,888
Northallerton 403,071 5,813 489,995 4,995 96,361 95,536
York 2,416,923 2,374,939 10,186 354,469 43,923
Scarborough 696,910 880,999 4,697 124,320 5,029
Harrogate 963,560 1,123,710 3,705 129,277 7,831
Bradford 2,553,620 2,900,765 26,132 404,076 18,590
Airedale 1,403,019 1,021,750 5,647 200,302 5,085
Calderdale 1,480,755 1,205,557 8,569 249,094 2,378
Huddersfield 1,830,278 1,991,579 16,223 375,489 5,141
Dewsbury 821,700 1,248,899 6,253 223,609 41,520
Leeds Western 3,190,826 3,389,823 376,263 876,930 179,810
Leeds Eastern 2,588,989 3,834,249 57,780 497,564
Wakefield 1,893,871 1,470,101 15,588 393,084 23,030
Pontefract 823,600 1,115,665 6,815 232,983 552
Trent Region
North Derbyshire 1,461,006 1,741,213 9,080 280,930 25,349

it will be a professional requirement of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain that all labels for medicines dispensed by general practice pharmacists should be either typed or machine printed.