The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7293 p407
3 April 2004

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Patients not told enough about medicines, say public

Most people do not believe that patients receive enough information about the treatments that are available to them, a survey of almost 2,500 people in England and Wales has revealed. Of 1,187 respondents, 45 per cent put little trust in the idea that new treatments are put into practice in the health care system. A similar proportion (43 per cent) were not confident that patients always received the right medicine, although less (34 per cent) were as sceptical about patients receiving the right dose of medicine (Quality and Safety in Health Care 2004;13:92).