GPs give out 1million fewer prescriptions after NHS ban on 'wasteful' treatments, saving health service £73million

Curbs on fish oil, homeopathy, herbal medicine and some painkillers aided the first annual dip in prescribing rates. GPs wrote 1.095billion scripts in 2017-18, a 950,000 fall — saving £73million. NHS England has since ordered restrictions on paracetamol, heartburn pills and other over-the-counter medicines. The larges
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