Pensioners Warned Over Mixing Pills as 1,000 a Day Hit A&E

Pensioners Warned Over Mixing Pills as 1,000 a Day Hit A&E

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Britain's 'overprescribing epidemic' sends 1,000 elderly people a day to A&E

Nearly eight million people across the UK are now consuming five or more prescription medicines every day, fuelling what clinicians describe as an over-prescribing epidemic that is sending thousands of older patients to hospital with avoidable drug reactions.NHS data analysis shows that up to 1,000 elderly people each day require emergency hospital treatment after suffering a preventable adverse response to their medication. Roughly 2.2 million …