article_snippet.sent: Some patients are even being given hangover tablets and Yakult yogurt drinks.
article_snippet.sent: Whoever is prescribing this or authorising this must have completely lost their mind.
article_snippet.sent: We need to take a different approach to prescribing,’ Dr Anita Sharma, a senior GP in Oldham, Greater Manchester said.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Primary care must focus on ensuring the use of the right medicine, for the right patient and at the right dose.
article_snippet.sent: This does not mean a script for every ill.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Richard Vautrey, of the British Medical Association’s GPs committee, said:
article_snippet.sent: ‘GPs have a duty to prescribe where there is clinical need.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for NHS England said: ‘GPs are responsible for only issuing appropriate prescriptions to GPs patients, and The figures underline the importance of ensuring that’s what happens everywhere.