The National Health Service could save hundreds of millions of pounds every year - simply by curbing the prescription and use of over 800 individual drugs known to be ineffective, undesirable or unnecessarily expensive. This is ineffective, undesirable or unnecessarily expensive. This is Charles Medawar's startling conclusion in a hard-hitting investigation of Britain's drug policy, in which he asks

- Why drug companies make and market hundreds of products that independent authorities agree are inferior
- Why governments allow the manufacture of these drugs
- Why doctors prescribe the wrong kind of medicine
- Why we as patients and consumers take these drugs

This timely and important contribution to the current debate about the National Health Service shows how better use can be made of its scare resources while at the same time improving the quality of patient care.  

HD9674 M4

CA Wrong Kind of Medicine ?
Consumers' Association

Consumers' Association and Hodder & Stoughton

1984

Pharmaceutical industry