{"id":55192,"date":"2024-01-02T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T08:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=55192"},"modified":"2024-01-02T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T08:07:48","slug":"too-many-patients-are-prescribed-drugs-they-dont-need-so-heres-a-radical-solution-let-pharmacists-de-prescribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/too-many-patients-are-prescribed-drugs-they-dont-need-so-heres-a-radical-solution-let-pharmacists-de-prescribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many patients are prescribed drugs they don&#8217;t need. So here&#8217;s a radical solution: Let pharmacists de-prescribe"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45086\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/chemist-calpol-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/chemist-calpol-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/chemist-calpol.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Community pharmacists say the following true story is sadly too familiar these days: a High Street chemist is handed a new prescription by a regular customer already taking a gamut of medications prescribed by his GP. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12917717\/patients-prescribed-drugs-dont-need-radical-solution-Let-pharmacists-prescribe.html\">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>Community pharmacists say the following true story is sadly too familiar these days: a High Street chemist is handed a new prescription&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55192","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\/2022\/10\/chemist.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55192","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=55192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55193,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55192\/revisions\/55193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}