HC Deb 04 May 1994 vol 242 c499W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the average proportion of generic prescribing undertaken by general practitioner fundholders now and before they became fundholders.

Dr. Mawhinney

Information is not available to make such an assessment. The generic prescribing rate for fundholders in 1992–93 was 49 per cent. compared with 43 per cent. for other general practitioners.

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