Following a review by NHS England of treatments it deems shouldn't be prescribed, several medications and vaccination drugs are set to be cut from a prescription list in a plan to save almost $350 million per year. The NHS drew a list of "wasteful" treatments which it could stop prescribing. The list includes travel vaccinations, pain relief medication and antidepressants, herbal treatments, vitamin supplements and alternative medicines like homeopathy. Officials recently consulted the population on the plans, saying they aim to cut prescriptions of "ineffective, over-priced and low value treatments". The same consultation explored if a list of 3,200 over-the-counter drugs and products should still be prescribed by GPs and wishes to add them to another list of treatments the NHS could eliminate.
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