GPs ordered to stop prescribing treatment for dandruff, cold sores and coughs GPs will be ordered to stop funding thousands of over-the-counter remedies for dandruff, cold sores, and coughs and colds in a bid to clamp down on waste across the health service.
More than 3,000 products currently funded by the NHS will no longer be routinely prescribed, under proposals to reduce the £650m spent annually on drugs which do not require without prescription.
Health officials pledged to bring down the £9billion drugs bill by stopping all prescriptions for some treatments, and widely restricting others.
Under the proposals, GPs will be told to stop routinely funding remedies for 36 conditions - including dandruff, cold sores, verrucas and insect bites - which be bought cheaply over the counter. The Daily Telegraph
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More than 3,000 products currently funded by the NHS will no longer be routinely prescribed, under proposals to reduce the £650m spent annually on drugs which do not require without prescription.
Health officials pledged to bring down the £9billion drugs bill by stopping all prescriptions for some treatments, and widely restricting others.
Under the proposals, GPs will be told to stop routinely funding remedies for 36 conditions - including dandruff, cold sores, verrucas and insect bites - which be bought cheaply over the counter. The Daily Telegraph
See also:
- Prescription curbs to free up hundreds of millions of pounds for frontline care NHS England
- College reassured GPs will retain freedom to prescribe following NHS England board meeting Royal College of General Practitioners
- Patients may not be able to get painkillers on the NHS The Daily Mail
- NHS confirms low value treatment blacklist and plans OTC prescribing limits GPonline
- Thank God the NHS has come to its senses over homeopathy The Independent
- Green light for ban on prescription of ‘low value products’ on NHS OnMedica
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