Viewpoint: Why GPs are right to question prescribing of OTC drugs
GPC member Dr Beth McCarron-Nash reacts to a GP magazine story on prescribing of drugs available OTC...
Simple steps could halve GP scrip errors within five years
GP prescribing errors could be halved in five years by introducing simple steps to eliminate mistake...
GP efforts reverse increase in NHS scrip costs
GP efforts to raise prescribing standards have reversed rising NHS medicine costs, official figures ...
Scotland approves psoriatic arthritis drug
GPs in Scotland can now prescribe golimumab for treating psoriatic arthritis on the NHS after it was...
Exclusive: GP prescription loophole threatens revalidation
Repeated DH failures to update 'archaic' systems for tracking GP prescriptions may hamper revalidati...
Editorial - DH needs to make prescribing accountable
As the UK parliament heads towards summer recess, there are a number of problems facing the DH and h...
Patients face five-year wait for new drugs as NICE target slips
NHS patients wait more than five years to receive new medicines because NICE misses its own deadline...
Chris Lancelot - Prescription errors are very worrying but very correctable
The results were alarming, the dangers real and the responses inadequate. Recent research suggests t...
Ban drug exports to protect NHS supply, MPs say
Health ministers should consider a ban on exports of prescription medicines to ensure NHS patients c...
DH to speed up access to innovative medicines
UK patients will gain earlier access to innovative drugs at a lower price to the NHS as part of a ne...
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