HC Deb 19 July 1990 vol 176 cc707-8W
Mr. Irvine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any plans to add Novopen pens and needles used by diabetics to the drug tariff list of prescribable appliances.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

There are no present plans to make this equipment available on general practitioner prescription although the matter will be kept under review. We believe that the existing range of disposable and reusable syringe equipment fully meets the needs of most insulin dependent diabetics.

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