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Dr Nick Barber, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy at University College London, is one of the world's foremost experts in the field, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He developed a national service for patients starting new medicines, which is currently being used by around seven million patients a year in the UK alone, and which has been copied in six countries. It's saved the NHS over 6bn so far. He also developed the national framework of good prescribing against which all GPs were measured, and his work on medication errors in care homes led to a Ministerial Summit and significant changes to national policy.

He has published over 200 research papers and been cited over 24,000 times. He is the author of How to Take Drugs.

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      Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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      ISBN13: 9781035072156, 978-1035072156
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      Book Synopsis

      Dr Nick Barber, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy at University College London, is one of the world's foremost experts in the field, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He developed a national service for patients starting new medicines, which is currently being used by around seven million patients a year in the UK alone, and which has been copied in six countries. It's saved the NHS over 6bn so far. He also developed the national framework of good prescribing against which all GPs were measured, and his work on medication errors in care homes led to a Ministerial Summit and significant changes to national policy.

      He has published over 200 research papers and been cited over 24,000 times. He is the author of How to Take Drugs.

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