Antidepressants cost NHS £5.5ma week - The Times (subscription)

The Times (subscription)Antidepressants cost NHS £5.5ma weekThe Times (subscription)The NHS is spending a record £780,000 a day on antidepressants as failing mental health services struggle to provide alternative therapies, new figures show. Prescriptions for drugs to treat depression have more than doubled from 29 million in 2005 to ...Antidepressant prescriptions in England double in a decadeThe GuardianAntidepressant prescriptions double in a decade - costing the NHS £780000 a DAYDaily MailNHS: Huge rise in amount of antidepressants prescribed by doctorsEvening StandardOnMedicaall 13 news articles »