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Radio Solent,3 mins

Are doctors giving too many patients tests and drugs they do not need?

Sasha Twining

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The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has drawn up a list of 40 treatments they say bring little or no benefit to patients and should no longer be used. We get the view of Nigel Watson who has been a GP in the New Forest for 30 years.

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