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On medication? Here’s how to STAY SAFE

We trust our doctors with our health and expect them to give us drugs that will benefit us. And most of the time, they do. But mistakes can happen. And that includes mistakes that we might make in taking our prescribed pills correctly.

There are 237 million medication errors made every year in the UK. ‘These errors cost the NHS nearly £100 million every year and they’re also responsible for around 1,700 deaths,’ says Dr

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