postcode prescribing

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(Medicine) Brit the practice of prescribing more or less expensive and effective medical treatments to patients depending on where they live in a country, and which treatments their health board is willing and able to provide

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postcode			POSTCODE prescribing is set to hound the NHS as long as primary care trusts are bombarded with numerous guidelines and initiatives, according to a Midland academic. Warning on postcode prescribing by Birmingham Mail (England) When the first two drugs, infliximab and etanercept, were licensed in 2000 they were subject to postcode prescribing, with many hospitals and primary care trusts refusing to fund them until they had been approved by National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Clinical trials by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) That should stop postcode prescribing, where drugs are available in one PCT area, but not in neighbouring PCTs. Cancer centres `can't afford care' by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			postal note postal order Postal Rate Commission postal service Postal Union postal worker Postanal postattack period postaxial postbag postbellum postbiblical postbox postboy postbus postcard postcards postcava postcentral gyrus postclassical postclassicism Postclavicle postcode postcode discrimination postcode lottery postcode prescribing postcoital postcolonial Postcomm Postcommissure Postcommunion postconsumer Postcornu postcranial postdate postdated Postdiluvial postdiluvian postdoc postdoctoral poste restante Postea posted Postel postelection postembryonic Postencephalon Postentry poster poster board poster boy			postcardiotomy syndrome Postcards Postcardware postcava postcava postcaval shunt postcaval shunt postcaval shunt postcaval shunt postcentral postcentral area postcentral area postcentral area postcentral area postcentral area postcentral gyrus postcentral gyrus postcentral gyrus postcentral sulcus postcentral sulcus Postchemotherapy Nausea and Vomiting postcibal postclassical postclassicism Postclavicle postcode postcode Postcode Defined Circulation postcode discrimination Postcode lottery postcode prescribing postcoded Postcodes Postcodes postcoital postcoital Postcoital contraception postcoital contraceptive postcoital contraceptive postcoital contraceptive postcoital headache postcoital headache postcoital headache Postcoital test Postcoital test Postcoital test Postcoital test Postcoital test Postcoital test postcoitus postcollision interaction postcolonial Postcolonialism Postcomm Postcommissure postcommissurotomy syndrome postcommissurotomy syndrome postcommissurotomy syndrome Postcommunion Postconcussion syndrome postconcussional disorder

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