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NHS Patients (Access to Medicines)

I accept that, as does Mike Richards. He has done a thorough piece of work in a short space of time; he needed to do so, given the urgency that the public attach to this. He says in his recommendations that measures need to be in place to prevent what the hon. Gentleman described. I think that the ethos and the integrity of doctors, their contract, the fact that they are not allowed to raise the issue of private drugs—it must be raised by the patient, rather than by the practitioner—and perhaps some other measures that we could introduce would resolve those problems. If we stick to the current system, what the hon. Gentleman describes could happen just as well, except that tied on to it would be this withdrawal of NHS treatment.