£100m Spent Annually On Pointless Indigestion Drugs By NHS

It is estimated that the National Health Service (NHS) spends at least £100m per year on needless indigestion drugs, according to an editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The UK is not alone in this kind of spending - apparently, almost £2bn are spent globally on such drugs each year. Two gastroenterology doctors at King’s College Hospital, London, write that proton pump inhibitors are the most commonly prescribed classes of drug worldwide.

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Filed under: Acid Reflux/GERD on January 4th, 2008