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Panorama

Online Doctors Uncovered

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Panorama goes undercover to reveal online doctor sites putting profit before patient care. In 2017 the Care Quality Commission issued a warning about the risks of buying drugs prescribed by doctors online. The programme discovers opiate-based painkillers and slimming tablets being sold to potentially vulnerable people and antibiotics being delivered across Europe in the face of warnings about resistance.

Dr Faye Kirkland, journalist and GP, meets the families of patients who have died after online consultations and exposes the sites running rings around the regulators. Show less

Contributors

Reporter:
Faye Kirkland
Executive Producer:
Karen Wightman

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