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>> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:25:31 +0100
>> Importance: Normal
>> Subject: RE: Branded drugs
>> From: "Jeff Green" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
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>> 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.
>>
>How?
>I just hear all those clinicians bleating about clinical freedoms;-)
Doubt it - most hospitals have a formulary.. which includes all the
'special offers' hospitals can get... ;-<<
>Only today, had another consultant treating me like a bloody junior
>house officer asking me to prescribe ferrous sulphate to a patient.
>Why didn't he/she just a script at the time?????
Probably not on the Hospital Formulary.. and the patient held an
exemption .. or the consultant *didn't know* the cost of ferrous
sulphate!
Mary
Mary Hawking Kingsbury Court Surgery Church Street Dunstable LU5 4RS
tel:01582 663218 (surgery)fax:01582 476488 (surgery)
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