HC Deb 13 May 1999 vol 331 c202W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will issue new guidelines on the use of beta interferon in the NHS. [80174]

Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to make beta interferon universally available on the NHS. [78995]

Mr. Denham

[pursuant to his reply, 11 May 1999, c. 131]: I regret that the reply I gave was misleading. It should read:

The Department will shortly he consulting interested parties on a draft health service circular on the prescribing of beta-interferon for people with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

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