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Subject: Gosport memorial hospital

9362 30.04.19 - 07:22pm
Another investigation... But people need to be charged * +

poppyt 30.04.19 - 07:39pm
Awful.... * +

wakeup4 30.04.19 - 09:10pm
Anyone surprised? * +

bozzalad 30.04.19 - 09:11pm

nope * +

bozzalad 30.04.19 - 09:52pm
Elderly people are routinely being given diabetes drugs they do not need thanks to an incentive scheme which rewards GPs for prescribing pills, experts have warned.

This 'overtreatment' is putting already-frail people at risk of falls, cognitive impairment and dementia, diabetes specialists said.

They said the problem dates back 15 years to a scheme introduced by the Labour government to pay GPs to ramp up treatment.

Writing in the Pharmaceutical Journal, the authors said the 'payment by results' programme overmedicalised the population and left many elderly people at risk of dangerous side effects.

Prescriptions for diabetes drugs have soared by 70 per cent in a decade with almost 55million given out last year, official figures show. * +

mikeymk 1.05.19 - 03:43am
I've been telling you this for years. *

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