HC Deb 10 December 1984 vol 69 c384W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what he estimates would be the additional cost to the National Health Service if in all cases H2 receptor blocking drugs were prescribed instead of antacids.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

Doctors would not be so irresponsible as to prescribe these expensive ulcer healing drugs in cases where they were not necessary.