§ Mr. Michael MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department intends to ask family practitioner committees to review the prescribing performances of those doctors who consistently under-prescribe medicines for their patients, compared to the average, in the same way as doctors who are deemed to be over-prescribing will be subject to peer review.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyIt is our intention that family practitioner committees, which will have medically qualified advisers on prescribing, should consider the possibility of under-prescribing which would be injurious to patients and raise any such cases with the practice concerned.