NHS splashed almost £100m prescribing items such as bread and paracetamol last year (opens in new tab)

THE NHS blew almost £100million prescribing items such as bread last year, a Sun probe found. The health service also dished out 15.7million packs of paracetamol for £64.4million — despite it being available in shops for as little as 29p. Other items include 292,600 loaves of gluten-free bread, 12,600 tubes of toothpaste and 664,700 prescriptions...