§ Lord Bramallasked Her Majesty's Government:
Why prescription-paying patients have to pay for dressings and some other items personally administered by their general practitioner, when the same emergency treatment obtained from a hospital casualty department or dressing clinic is free; and whether they have any plans to amend paragraph 44.5 of the "Red Book" so as to treat such items as personally administered.
§ Baroness CumberlegeAll emergency treatment is free of charge to patients whether provided by general 7WA practitioners or hospitals. There are no plans at present to change paragraph 44.5 of the "Red Book".