HC Deb 18 December 1990 vol 183 c148W
16. Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to ensure that general practitioners will not be prevented or restricted from prescribing drugs by the action of family health service associations.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The indicative prescribing scheme will promote quality in this part of the health service and will in no way prevent general practitioners from prescribing all the drugs their patients need.