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How profit hungry firms could affect the care you're given by doctors and chemists: JOHN NAISH
Would you trust NHS screening tests if it turned out they weren't necessary and could lead to you being prescribed drugs that caused serious side-effects – or worse, that the tests only existed because profit-seeking companies had paid for the NHS to introduce them?
The disturbing fact is that, in the case of at least one recent and heavily promoted NHS screening test to detect hidden heart rhythm problems, this has already happened, according to a damning report published today in the journal of the Royal College of Physicians.
