HC Deb 19 October 1988 vol 138 c907W
Sir Michael McNair-Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are made for a registered medical practitioner to participate on a named patient basis.

Mr. Mellor

Under the Medicines Act 1968, doctors are free to be supplied with and to prescribe any unlicensed drug on a named patient basis if they judge it to be in the patient's best interest.