§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people receiving NHS prescriptions who do not follow the full course of treatment. [4284]
§ Mr. MilburnIn 1996 the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys survey of prescribed medicines in a random sample of 2,082 households found that 8 per cent. could be described as residual or wasted. Within this, 0.7 per cent. were completely unused, 4 per cent. were approximately half used and 3 per cent. were almost gone.