A tenth of prescription medicines doled out by GPs are unnecessary, pushing the NHS drugs bill to more than £9 billion, a landmark review has found. Patients are routinely being harmed by a “culture” of overprescribing, the investigation found, with a fifth of hospital admissions among pensioners caused by adverse effects of medication. The Government-ordered review identifies “very significant” waste across the system, saying that too often patients felt unable to question medics who did not look up from their keyboards. It found that an average of 20 prescriptions are now issued per head of population annually, a doubling in …read more
Source: Sott health news feed
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