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Men
who were receiving weakness treatments on the NHS earlier than 14 September
1998 will also meet the criteria.
Mr.
Dobson said GPs should be classified to prescribing one pill per week.
The
limitations on Viagra are relevant to all other weakness treatments.
Mr.
Dobson justified the restrictions on the grounds that the cost of making it
extensively accessible could not be justified in terms of his duties to the
NHS as a whole.
Viagra now turn into only the seventh drug to be restricted for this
explanation under Schedule 11 of NHS (General medicinal Services)
Regulations issued in 1992.
GPs
will be capable to write private recommendation for Viagra for their
patients.
The
application will come into consequence on 1 July, subject to parliamentary
agreement, and will be analysis in a year's time.
Mr.
Dobson said three quarters of the 861 replies he had received supported
limitations on NHS accessibility of Viagra.
Ten
per cent required the drug to be banned in general, he said.
And
over half said other powerlessness treatments should be correspondingly
restricted or forbidden.
Mr.
Dobson said he had to locate "a sensible balance among treating men with the
upsetting condition of inability, and protecting the possessions of the NHS
to deal with other patients".
NHS
managers had notify extensive access to the drug would cost the government?
00m a year.
The change in
strategy is expected to lift up the charge of NHS Viagra from 2m a year to
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