{"id":31754,"date":"2021-09-22T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31754"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:22:20","slug":"a-tenth-of-prescription-medicines-given-out-by-gps-unnecessary-finds-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/22\/a-tenth-of-prescription-medicines-given-out-by-gps-unnecessary-finds-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A tenth of prescription medicines given out by GPs unnecessary, finds review"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24028\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tenth of\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/05\/29\/record-number-prescriptions-issued-britain-entered-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"73\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:73,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:4}\">prescription medicines<\/a> doled out by GPs are unnecessary, pushing the NHS drugs bill to more than \u00a39 billion, a landmark review has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/a-tenth-of-prescription-medicines-given-out-by-gps-unnecessary-finds-review\/ar-AAOGlKW?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A tenth of\u00a0prescription medicines doled out by GPs are unnecessary, pushing the NHS drugs bill to more than \u00a39 billion, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibiotics.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31755,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31754\/revisions\/31755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}