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Coroner: Man dies by suicide after GP deregistration despite pharmacy plea

 
• By Kate Bowie

GP bureaucracy can leave individuals “without access to medication, which could cause or contribute to their death”, a coroner has warned.  

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The pharmacy sent “two chaser emails” to the surgery “to seek authorisation for the prescription”
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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