Where to next? Ministers to crack down on overprescription of medicines on the NHS
onebigvoice
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I see this headline recently.
While I basically agree that there needs to be an overhaul of thesystem where you now don't see a Doctor its over the phone I believe that they are giving tablets as a take this and a pat on the head and off you go.
If you don't ring back within a week or so then its worked if not and you do, try this and see what happens.
How many of us here take more than 4 different tablets a day, and have been for more than 4 weeks and now find that the side effects of these tablets are worse than what I originall went to the doctor for?
It does not really matter whether you only take one tablet regularly or like me 20 different ones each day.
My prescription is reviewed every month, and dosages upped or lowered but never removed, until recently as the headaches and Nausea caused by some tablets, did not out weigh the benefits. I refused to take some but the damage to liver, blood pressure and bloods was done after 10 years of taking one tablet well over the normal recommended dosage finding out that more than 6 weeks of this tablets is liable to cause serious liver and kidney function problems that are then for life.
There are many like me that don't want to take anything, but can't function without them now. So will like everything else this government does with " Good intentions " be miss construded as if you have had a tablet for many years and there is no change then reduce the dosage as there need to give it if there is no Change?
How do you think its going to go? Who will be the experts to decide or as the headline states Minister's to crackdown?
Ministers to crack down on overprescription of medicines on the NHS
I just wonder who they will use to " crackdown " on overprescribed medicines?While I basically agree that there needs to be an overhaul of thesystem where you now don't see a Doctor its over the phone I believe that they are giving tablets as a take this and a pat on the head and off you go.
If you don't ring back within a week or so then its worked if not and you do, try this and see what happens.
How many of us here take more than 4 different tablets a day, and have been for more than 4 weeks and now find that the side effects of these tablets are worse than what I originall went to the doctor for?
It does not really matter whether you only take one tablet regularly or like me 20 different ones each day.
My prescription is reviewed every month, and dosages upped or lowered but never removed, until recently as the headaches and Nausea caused by some tablets, did not out weigh the benefits. I refused to take some but the damage to liver, blood pressure and bloods was done after 10 years of taking one tablet well over the normal recommended dosage finding out that more than 6 weeks of this tablets is liable to cause serious liver and kidney function problems that are then for life.
There are many like me that don't want to take anything, but can't function without them now. So will like everything else this government does with " Good intentions " be miss construded as if you have had a tablet for many years and there is no change then reduce the dosage as there need to give it if there is no Change?
How do you think its going to go? Who will be the experts to decide or as the headline states Minister's to crackdown?
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Is it this article from the Independent that you're referring to here @onebigvoice?1
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