asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will require pharmacists to label all medicines supplied under a prescription with their names, unless a contrary instruction is given by the doctor.

This would involve a change in the ruling convention between the medical and pharmaceutical professions as to the labelling of a dispensed medicine where the prescriber has given no specific directions.At the present time the opinion of local Pharmaceutical Committees is being sought on the willingness of dispensing chemists to adopt it.