Calls for GPs to face disciplinary action for over-prescribing antibiotics have been criticised as “counter-productive and unhelpful” by leading doctors. The General Medical Council said GPs are under “enormous pressure”
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Medicine to treat diabetes now accounts for 10% of the annual spend on prescriptions, new figures show. Some £868.6 million was spent on ingredients for diabetes sufferers during the last
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NHS England has said it will take urgent action after finding a “high level of inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs in people with learning disabilities”. A report estimated that up
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Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been awarded a £2 million grant from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) for a five-year research programme into medicines
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NICE has published a new quality standard on managing medicines in care homes. It covers the prescribing, handling and administering of medicines for all people (including adults, children and young
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Blindly following recommendations for drug prescriptions in national clinical guidelines for conditions including diabetes, depression and heart failure will often result in potentially serious drug interactions, according to a new
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Misuse of two prescription drugs typically used to treat epilepsy, pain or anxiety has been significantly increased, a survey has shown. Pregabalin and gabapentin, which are being commonly used alongside
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At a summit today in London, GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and pharmacists are calling for binding national “rollback” targets on antibiotic prescribing to halt the relentless rise in antibiotic resistance.
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