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Make GPs stop giving out prescriptions for over the counter painkillers

Submitted on Friday 29th July 2016

Published on Thursday 4th August 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Saturday 4th February 2017

Signatures: 11

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Money ~ NHS

Petition Action

Make GPs stop giving out prescriptions for over the counter painkillers

Petition Details

In 2015 the NHS spent 87 million pound on prescriptions for paracetemol alone aswell as 27 million on ibruprofen. These are medication that can be purchased for 20p in any shop imagine the money the NHS could save and how many urgent operations could be made with the money that will be saved.


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