Professor Tony Avery,  National Clinical Director for Prescribing for NHS England, discusses safer prescribing of medicines.

He highlights the changes he would like to see to enable patients to make genuinely informed decisions, which may also sometimes mean that they decide not to go ahead with a treatment. Tony describes how he believes doctors and patients can work together on initial prescribing decisions,  so that patients can be confident that the benefits of the selected approach outweigh the risks.

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