Cut-Price Statins Are Putting Patients at Risk, Say Doctors

Daily MailMarch 02, 2007

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FOUR in ten GPs believe the safety of patients on cholesterol- lowering drugs is being jeopardised by Government pressure to prescribe cheaper tablets.

Their warning comes after a patient nearly died following a change to a less expensive statin.

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Cut-Price Statins Are Putting Patients at Risk, Say Doctors

Nearly all GPs surveyed said they were coming under pressure from primary care trusts to ease the Health Service's financial crisis by switching patients' treatme...

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