HC Deb 18 July 1983 vol 46 c32W
Mr. Wardell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many pharmacists in England and Wales have been penalised by the family practitioners committee for errors in drug preparations in each year since 1978.

Mr. John Patten

The number of cases where pharmacists, under contract with family practitioner committees, have been penalised by withholdings from remuneration for errors in drug preparations, in England and Wales, are as follows:

Number
1978 10
1979 3
1980 6
1981 16
1982 20