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Doctors who unnecessarily prescribe expensive branded drugs to patients when cheaper alternatives are available are facing a crackdown as the NHS attempts to reduce its annual ?8bn family medicine bill.
Health service managers have identified inefficient prescribing by GPs as a key target for savings as the NHS looks to cut costs by around 4 per cent every year.
As a result, GPs will be forced to justify their prescription costs against newly published data, allowing managers to identify those doctors who continue to prescribe expensive branded drugs rather than their generic alternatives. The move comes after a study, backed by the new NHS Commissioning Board, found the NHS was wasting ?33m a month on unnecessary expenditure on two branded heart drugs alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prescribe-cheaper-drugs-gps-told-8433635.html
Health service managers have identified inefficient prescribing by GPs as a key target for savings as the NHS looks to cut costs by around 4 per cent every year.
As a result, GPs will be forced to justify their prescription costs against newly published data, allowing managers to identify those doctors who continue to prescribe expensive branded drugs rather than their generic alternatives. The move comes after a study, backed by the new NHS Commissioning Board, found the NHS was wasting ?33m a month on unnecessary expenditure on two branded heart drugs alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prescribe-cheaper-drugs-gps-told-8433635.html