HC Deb 28 April 2003 vol 404 c284W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the overmedication of older people in NHS hospitals. [109001]

Jacqui Smith

No information is available at national level about overmedication in national health service hospitals. Implementation of the medicines management supplement of the older people's national service framework will ensure the best use of medicine for older people and will, therefore, prevent overmedication.