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Prescription for Bankruptcy?
This year Britain will pay, for the first time, more than £1,000-million for the nation's drugs. While hospitals close, patients are denied the best treatment, and Health Authorities struggle to make ends meet on fixed budgets, family doctors are free to prescribe with little regard to cost. Without controls, this blank cheque drawn on the NHS will, sooner or later, bounce:
Can we afford any longer, the luxury of the doctor's cherished freedom to prescribe
Can the patients' demand for ' a pill for every ill ' be curbed?
Can drug prices, and profits, be further controlled?
Bill Breekon Investigates the options open to doctors, industry and government.
Research by SHARON BANOFF Producer RITCHIE COGAN (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)

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Unknown:
Bill Breekon
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Sharon Banoff
Producer:
Ritchie Cogan
Source: Radio Times

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