The Scottish Conservatives will scrap their opposition to free prescriptions north of the border, it has emerged. Ruth Davidson said she recognised the “large amount of support” for free prescriptions
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Skills for Care has issued a specific pledge for the social care sector to support the STOMP (stopping the over-medication of people) with a learning disability and / or autism
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The Health and Social Care Board and the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland have launched a Safe Medicines campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of misusing prescription medication.
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Thousands of Britons are dying from heart attacks and strokes after being scared away from statins by warnings of non-existent side effects, the lead author of a major study has
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Scotland has become the first part of the UK to make a controversial drug which aims to prevent HIV available on the NHS. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has approved
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Travel vaccinations, gluten-free foods and omega-3 supplements may no longer be available on the NHS under major cost-cutting plans. NHS England will next month launch a consultation as it works
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One of the most popular over-the-counter painkillers in the UK can heighten the chances of suffering a potentially fatal cardiac arrest, a study has shown. Researchers in Denmark found that
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Countless women suffering from breast cancer “are having their lives shortened in front of their eyes” by the decision to withdraw a pioneering treatment from the NHS, a Labour MP
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More patients with rare or terminal illnesses will get the drugs they need on the NHS as a result of changes to the way new medicines are approved, Health Secretary
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Breast cancer sufferers in Scotland have been denied routine access to an “innovative treatment” that is available to patients south of the border. Campaigners branded the move the “ultimate postcode
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