David,
I said it, and it was probably a poor example.
With regard to hospital prescribing. Surely one of the benefits that a PCG
with a unified budget will bring is a measure of control over hospital
prescribing.
Regards
Jeff
Jeff Green
-Community Locum and Consultant Pharmacist-
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> Subject: Re: Branded drugs
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> > Someone said:
> > > The makers of the H2 antagonists are disappointed at their
> > >>pharmacy sales . (If only more GPs tried prescribing Mag Trisil before
> > >going
> > >>onto H2 antagonists and PPI's)
> >
> Don't blame it wholely on GPs. What about the hospitals? It seems
> anybody admitted as an emergenct nowadays is given a PPI. A patient
> of mine recently was admitted with abdo pains, discharged the next
> day on buscopan, gaviscon and losec (they can't even prescribe
> generically). No endoscopy, scan, etc. Even more worrying no followup
> arranged:-(
> Is this good medicine? Or is it what some would call art?
>
> Dr David J Plews
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