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Author Archives: appgita
Appeal by John Perrott to the Information Commissioner’s Office against a refusal by the Department of Health’s Freedom of Information Team 1 May 2013
The Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF 1 May 2013 Dear Sir/Madam, I wish to appeal to the ICO against the refusal by the Department of Health FOI Internal Review reference IR 724555, dated 6 … Continue reading
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Letter from Professor Heather Ashton to Nicky Jayesinghe, Secretariat of the British Medical Association (BMA), 14 May 2013
Dear Nicky, Your e-mail reply sent May 12 is confusing. The scope says that the Board of Science met immediately after the BMA meeting on addiction to prescribed drugs in January. I now understand from you that all they decided … Continue reading
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APPGITA update, April 2013
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Anna Soubry MP announced a change of direction on addiction to medicines at a conference organised by the National Treatment Agency in London on the 28 February 2013. In her keynote speech, Anna … Continue reading
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Letter from Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Public Health, to Jim Dobbin MP (22 April 2013)
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Letter from Jim Dobbin to Anna Soubry, Minister for Public Health, (21 March 2013)
Anna Soubry MP Minister for Public Health Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS 21 March 2013 Dear Anna, On 12 March 2013 the MHRA posted a benzodiazepine learning module on its website, this information was circulated … Continue reading
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Middle-aged people addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers because GPs over-prescribe them, health minister says, The Telegraph, 3 April 2013
telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews Middle-aged people are addicted to sleeping pills and tranquilizers because doctors have been over-prescribing them, a health minister has suggested. Anna Soubry, a health minister, said GPs’ willingness to over-prescribe some drugs had created an “addiction” to them which … Continue reading
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Email from John Perrott to Clare Gerada, Chair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners
Dear Dr Gerada, Further to my email to you of 23 March 2013 I would like your opinion regarding the huge increase in psychotropic drugs prescribed in England in the last 6 years. Psychotropic drugs dispensed extracted from the Prescription … Continue reading
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Email from John Perrott to Clare Gerada, Chair of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, (March 23 2013)
Dear Dr Gerada, I am writing to express concerns about the RCGP and you regarding involuntary tranquilliser addiction: 1. Your statements on the subject contain misconceptions, inaccuracies and assertions which are not based on any scientific evidence or data. 2. … Continue reading
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Addiction to Medicines: Commissioning Services After the Health Reforms (13 March 2013)
Taken from: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/news-2013-atmconf.aspx Commissioners and providers of drug treatment services came together on 28 February to consider future commissioning and provision of services for dependence on prescription and over-the-counter medicines, especially benzodiazepine tranquillisers, at a national conference in London organised by … Continue reading
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Email from John Perrott to Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (07 March 2013)
Dear Dr Gerada, In the paper attached which you co-wrote in 2002 on prescribed tranquillisers you acknowledge that ” there are an estimated 1 – 1.5 million long-term users:” In the Daily Mail article today you are quoted as saying … Continue reading
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