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This book will change lives. It has changed mine. * Yasmin Alibhai-Brown * A lively and empowering read, full of deftly explained science, good humour and humanity. * Dr Lucy Pollock, author of The Book About Getting Older * An important, timely and above all a very enjoyable book. . . Nick does what few writers manage in making complex and technical issues easily understood by the lay person, with a very easy style and a wry sense of humour. * Andrew Davies, former Welsh Government Minister and Chair of Swansea Bay Health Board *

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Dr. Nick Barber, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy at UCL, is one of the world's foremost experts in the field, and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He developed a national service for patients starting new medicines, which is currently being used by around a million patients a year in the UK alone, and which has been copied in six countries. It's saved the NHS over £6bn so far. He also developed the national framework of good prescribing against which all GPs were measured, and his work on medication errors in care homes led to a Ministerial Summit and changes to national policy. He has published over 200 research papers and been cited over 23,000 times He also presented the BBC's Victorian Pharmacy; four x one hour programmes originally aired in 2010. The series attracted 2.6 million viewers on its first showing, was sold internationally and is still being repeated. It scores 8.1 on IMDB, and 4.6/5 on Amazon.

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