Joint Subcommittee of the English and Scottish Standing

For their part, the UK Government set up in August 1962 the Joint Subcommittee of the English and Scottish Standing Medical Advisory Committees, under the Chairmanship of The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, with the following terms of reference ... 

The joint subcommittee of the English and Scottish Standing Medical Advisory Committees, under the chairmanship of Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, made recommendations regarding future legislation for the control of medicines, in addition to the immediate establishment of the Committee on Safety of Drugs, which came into operation in 1963 and whose function was to review the evidence on new drugs and offer advice on their safety. The Committee consisted of a panel of independent experts from various fields of pharmacy, pathology and so on. The Committee was serviced by a professional secretariat of pharmacists and medical officers, who undertook the assessment of the submissions and presented these to the committee and various subcommittees. 

The Joint Subcommittee of the English and Scottish Standing Medical Advisory Committee was chaired by Lord Cohen of Birkenhead and... 

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