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Generic drugs could save PCTs £200m
Primary care trusts should do more to encourage GPs to prescribe cheaper generic drugs, the public accounts committee has said.
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NICE could rate all drugs for extra £1m a year
Proposals to extend the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence would cost just £1m extra a year, or 3.5 per cent of its budget, its chief executive Andrew Dillon has estimated.
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top up reversal
TheLondonspecialist commissioning group has reversed its decision to deny six hospitals tops ups for their specialist spinal surgery. The move brings the total number ofLondonhospitals eligible for top ups above the payment by results tariff for specialist spinal work from two to eight. The strategic health authority-based SCG’s decision follows ...
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'Top up' fees not 'equitable' funding system
The Doctors for Reform study published yesterday argues - through the use of only 20 case studies - that more patients are paying 'top-up' fees and that 'the fundamental NHS principle - that care should be universally and equitably available ' no longer applies'.
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Community pharmacists to step up public health duties
Published: 11/11/2004, Volume II4, No. 5931 Page 8
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MPs call for obesity to be included in community pharmacy contract
Published: 19/02/2004, Volume II4, No. 5893 Page 4 5
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Select committee resists store pharmacy plans
Published: 19/06/2003, Volume II3, No. 5860 Page 10
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Community pharmacists 'could face wipe-out'
Published: 16/01/2003, Volume II3, No. 5838 Page 6 7