Short Cuts: Conservative proposal to end postcode prescribing

Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has promised to end 'postcode prescribing' by setting up a centrally funded national medicines budget for treatments such as beta interferon.The size of the budget would be determined annually by the health secretary, but spent by an 'exceptional medicines fund' committee of 'senior clinicians ...

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