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British the practice of prescribing more or less expensive and effective medical treatments to patients depending on where they live in a country, and which treatments their health board is willing and able to provide

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How to use postcode prescribing in a sentence

Veterinarians may continue prescribing the old-fashioned way, without exemption, as can prescriptions to be filled out of state.
No More Paper Prescriptions: Docs Fight Fraud by Going Electronic|Dale Eisinger|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The last arm of the bill is universal e-prescribing for all prescriptions.
No More Paper Prescriptions: Docs Fight Fraud by Going Electronic|Dale Eisinger|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Further, pot-prescribing physicians in Michigan and Colorado have faced jail time.
I Got a Weed License in Minutes|Daniela Drake|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In this world, once-proud physicians are over-prescribing and over-ordering, grinning and pretending, stepping and fetching.
You Can't Yelp Your Doctor|Daniela Drake|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So why are so many doctors prescribing meds to 2- and 3-year-olds?
Why Giving Adderall to Toddlers Is So Completely, Utterly Wrong|Russell Saunders|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Seen thus poverty became rather a blessing than a curse, or at least a dispensation prescribing the proper lot of man.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Desertion is a general ground of divorce, the law in every state prescribing a period of time, quite often three years.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Some states have enacted statutes prescribing requirements for life insurance policies, or standard forms.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Has a physician no right to know when a change is made in the formula of a preparation which he has been prescribing for years?
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
Physicians who call for preparations of the Antikamnia type are prescribing names, not drugs.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various