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Health Bill [HL]

Before the noble Earl does that, I wonder whether I could clarify a couple of points. When I referred to pharmacists, I meant private pharmacies. I perfectly understand that in hospital pharmacies there is proper control. What one cannot be sure about is that there would be proper control within a private pharmacy. That is what I was talking about. On the question of payment for the health service, not everybody reads the documents that the Minister quoted. I shall not say that it is my plan, because it is not, but consideration should be given by the Government to show perhaps on people’s wage slips how much they personally are paying towards the cost of the health service—like a health stamp, for example.