Prescriptions error warning
Around one in 20 prescriptions written by family doctors contains an error, the General Medical Council has warned.
'Time pressures on GP's lead to prescription errors'
Professor Tony Avery, who led the research on prescription errors, has said that mistakes creep because of the time pressures on GPs and the fact that prescribing often happens at the end of a consultation when time is short.
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