Doctors attack Thérèse Coffey's 'risky' plan for pharmacy antibiotic prescriptions without GPs

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Doctors attack Thérèse Coffey's 'risky' plan for pharmacy antibiotic prescriptions without GPs
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Doctors are urging people not to listen to health advice from the new Health Secretary

reports that Ms Coffey “said she had handed out her own supplies of the medicines to friends and family who were feeling unwell”.She tweeted: “Doctors do not – unlike Coffey – dish out spare antibiotics to our family & friends because we’re painfully aware of the harms of antibiotic resistance. Utter recklessness.

Dr George said that failing to complete a course risked the development of antibiotic resistance, which created “huge issues”. “It’s just medicine on the cheap. It’s a low-cost way of dealing with problems that need to be seen by somebody. So I think it’s a recipe for disaster. It’s just completely ludicrous.”She tweeted: “Listen to actual doctors: if you take antibiotics like they’re Skittles, you will cause antibiotic resistance. It will mean that antibiotics become useless when you really need them

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