The ongoing cost of the private finance initiative was laid bare by the Institute for Public Policy Research, while the government published a Public Health England report on prescribing for drugs used to treat anxiety, insomnia, nerve damage, chronic pain and depression.
Although the newspapers used the report to claim that England has become “a nation of pill poppers” the report emphasises the links between prescribing and deprivation. Also this week: lots of app news and a chance to catch up on Expo19NHS with our report of last week’s Health and Social Care Innovation Expo in Manchester.
