§ Sir Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he received from the manufacturers of Clarke's Blood Mixture about his limited drugs list.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeNone.
§ Sir Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how he arrived at his estimate that the revised limited list proposals will save £75 million.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI refer my hon. Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on 28 February at column277.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether at the time of his announcement of his amended limited list he was aware that the Dutch Government were going to scrap their negative list.
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§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe understand that the Dutch Government are amending one part of their limited list and that they have no intention of abolishing it.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has any plans to insist that generic manufacture of a given drug is in an identically shaped and coloured product.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeNo.
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he received from the manufacturers of Flora margarine and of Fine Fare hot lemon powder during the consultation period on the limited National Health Service drugs list proposals.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeWe received no representations about Flora margarine or Fine Fare hot lemon powder during the consultation period on the limited list proposals.
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many products on the list of medicines he announced on 21 February that will no longer be prescribable on the National Health Service after 1 April fall outside the seven therapeutic categories referred to in his statement to the House; and if he will list them.
§ 2. Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe list of medicines we announced on 21 February that will no longer be prescribable on the National Health Service after 1 April included some 68 products which the Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances has advised are not medicines and should not be prescribed by general practitioners. The list also included nine products which have since been deleted. Full details are as follows.
ACBS non-prescribable preparations
Acne Aid Bar, Atrixo, Aveeno Bar, Aveeno Bar Oilated, Complan, Cantaflour, Carnation Build-up, Cidal, Covermark Removing Cream, Dansac Skin Lotion, Derbac Soap, Dermacolour Cleansing Cream, Cleansing Milk, Cleansing Lotion, Efamol Capsules, Energen Starch Reduced Bran Crispbread, Flora Margarine, Fortimel, Fortison Low Sodium, Gamophen, Genatosan, Glucodin, GF Gluten-Free Maize Biscuits with Chocolate, GF Gluten-Free Maize Biscuits with Hazelnut, Gluten-Free Thin Wafer Bread, Granogen, Hygienic Babysalve, Ipsel, Lacto Calamine, Laevoral, Linoleic Acid, Lysaldin, Nutrogena Soap, Nicobrevin, Nicorette, Nivea, Nutritionally Complete Supplemented Fasting Formula, Oilatum Bar, Respaton, Rite-Diet Gluten Free Biscuits (chocolate Chip Cookies, Half coated chocolate, Lincoln, Shortcake, Sultana, Custard Cream, Soya Bran), Rite-diet Gluten Free Canned Rich Fruit Cake, ROC Total Sunblock Creams, light tan and deep tan, Safflower Seed Oil, Saxin, Simple Soap, Sorbitol SMA Gold Cap Powder and Ready To Feed, SMA Powder and Concentrated Liquid, Sweetex, Tonic Wines, Taitamyl Gluten Free Bread Mix, Trufree Plain Flour, Pasta Mix, Sweet Biscuit, Bread Mix, United Skin Care Programme, Wate on Tablets, Wines, Woodwards Nursery Cream.Products deleted from the list published on 21 February
Apisate Delayed Release Tablets, Forceval Protein Powder, Optimax Powder, Optimax Tablets, Sorbitol, Synflex Tablets 275 mg, Oxazepam Capsules 30 mgl, Terramycin S F Capsules, Tetracyn S F Capsules.