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Give monetary amount wasted #6

Open frabcus opened 11 years ago

frabcus commented 11 years ago

It's quite hard to understand what the data means.

I think the easiest way to improve this would be to have "amount of money wasted" much clearer.

Getting the writing correct for this so the general reader understands it without misunderstanding it requires great care. Definitely doable though.

drcjar commented 11 years ago

Statins are a group of drugs that help prevent heart disease and stroke. Proprietary drugs are drugs that are still on-patent. Proprietary drugs tend to be worse value for money than non-proprietary drugs.

The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends that where possible cheaper non-proprietary statins (e.g Simvastatin). Following this recommendation would have saved the NHS over 200 million pounds a year.