Bernard Allen
Ceist:305 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will make a statement on the results of a recent study carried out at St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, by the departments of pharmacology and therapeutics at Trinity College, Dublin, that wrong frequency and legibility problems were the most commonly documented problems in an evaluation of prescribing errors in an out-patients' department and that these errors accounted for a total of 25% of the prescribing mistakes observed. [12500/00]