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Professor Teeling Smith and The Politics of Prescribing
Author(s) -
Baines Darrin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1209
Subject(s) - medicine , politics , law , political science
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.