The UK’s overprescription epidemic

Stories of our times by The Times

Oct 5, 202630:50News & Politics

A Sunday Times investigation has found England is in an overprescribing epidemic. Adverse reactions to cocktails of medicines are sending a thousand older people to A&E every day, potentially causing deaths, and costing...

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