GPs warning over rise in prescription requests
There has been an increase in the number of people asking for prescriptions for things like painkillers, the BMA says
The rise in prescription request increases "the cost to the health service as a whole and the pressure on GPs", Dr Stout told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme. Over-the-counter medicines should be free, he added, and said there should be some sort of "easy and accessible way" for people to get the medicines they need.
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