Prescibed medicines, reduction in prescribable drugs list
- Date:
- 1977-1985
- Reference:
- SA/PAT/D/40
- Part of:
- The Patients Association
- Archives and manuscripts
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The file also covers issues of excessive or unnecessary prescribing by GPs with regard to cost implications for the NHS and the effects of long term prescriptions or too much prescribing without commensurate information to the patient, the need for explanation of coping strategies in lieu of blanket prescribing, dealing with patient expectations about their right to prescriptions of their choice, over-prescribing to pensioners, pressure for more generic prescribing (rather than well known brand names), the Greenfield Report on Effective Prescribing (with comments of the Patients Association and National Consumer Council), Patients Association comments on the Consumer Association's paper on the 'Drug Industry' and the prescribing habits of GPs, over prescription of tranquilizers, patient and doctor attitudes to prescribing.
Includes correspondence with the DHSS, newspaper and journal articles, DHSS press releases, correspondence with other associations, copy of the ABPI Briefing for MPs 'Patients First?', list of the proposed drugs to be removed from the NHS expense after 1 Apr 1985, circulars issued May 1985 regarding exceptions to the blacklist introduced by the government, i.e. circumstances where GPs could prescribe disallowed drugs.
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