HC Deb 18 November 1998 vol 319 cc700-1W
Mr. Todd

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will review controls on dispensing from GP practices to ensure qualified persons are present when dispensing is carried out.[60195]

Mr. Milburn

We have no plans to review the controls on dispensing from general practitioners practices to ensure qualified persons are present when dispensing is carried out.

Doctors are responsible for the duties they delegate to their practice staff, including the dispensing of medicines. The Court of Appeal recently upheld an earlier decision that doctors may delegate the dispensing of medicines to their practice staff.