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Medical boards often lenient on doctors overprescribing opioids, research finds

Written by | 4 Jul 2024

Researchers looked at over 100 cases of misconduct involving the overprescription of opioid drugs in an anonymised US state. The study investigated professional bodies composed predominantly of doctors tasked […]

Action on overprescribing of medicines

Written by | 24 Sep 2021

Ministers are announcing action to prevent medicines being prescribed unnecessarily, following a new review led by Dr Keith Ridge CBE, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England. The review of […]

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