Professor Teeling Smith and The Politics of Prescribing

Darrin Baines

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    Abstract

    In our series on the history of prescribing policy, Dr Darrin Baines traces how successive governments have attempted to curb drug costs. Here, he describes Professor Teeling Smith's warning of the dangers of a ‘cheap drugs’ policy in 1985.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)32–33
    JournalPrescriber
    Volume25
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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    Keywords

    • drug prescribing
    • NHS
    • government policy
    • 1980s
    • pharmaceutical industry
    • generic drugs

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