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Too much medicine: NHS wields the axe on 17 “unnecessary procedures”

The NHS is reducing, discontinuing, or highly restricting some procedures that have often been shown to get better without treatment. Procedures including injections for back pain, surgery to help snorers and knee arthroscopies for arthritis are included in the list of 17 operations.

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