HC Deb 12 March 1997 vol 292 c261W
Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the recommendations contained in the White Paper, "Working for Patients", relating to patients' access to high-cost drugs, represent current Government policy. [17385]

Mr. Malone

Measures are in place to ensure that general practitioners are able to take on the prescribing of medicines for patients with unusually high prescribing costs, where it is clinically appropriate for them to do so.

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