Overprescribing of medicines must stop, says government
Some prescribed treatments are unnecessary and even harmful, says government-commissioned report. …
Prof Martin Marshall, who chairs the Royal College of GPs, said: “Prescribing is a core skill for GPs and many of our nurse and pharmacist colleagues in primary care and doing whatever we can to prescribe the most appropriate medicine for our patients, in an evidence-based way is something we strive to do on a daily basis – and in the vast majority of cases, this review shows this is happening.
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