NHS England has announced it will publish a national list of "low value" drugs as part of a new drive to reduce GPs' prescribing costs, according to an article in the BMJ.
The review will initially focus on ten treatments that NHS Clinical Commissioners, the body that represents clinical commissioning groups, estimates could save the NHS 128m (AU$205m) a year.
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