Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns
by The Guardian
The Guardian— Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses sayDrug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned. A dramatic recent spike in the number of drugs that are unavailable has created serious problems for doctors, pharmacists, the NHS and patients, it found.The number of warnings drug companies have issued about impending supply...
Daily Mail—Urgent warning over shortages of life-saving drugs: Damning report reveals patients are at risk because of Britain's 'broken' medicine supply chain so are stocks of YOUR meds running low?. The Government has been urged to carry out a review of the UK's 'broken' medicine supply chain as costs soar and patients are left in pain.
The Independent—Shortages of ‘life saving’ medicines has become ‘new normal’ for UK. ‘The medicines supply chain is broken at every level,’ warns Dr Leyla Hannbeck
The Guardian—‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: people in UK describe stress of drug shortages. Vital cystic fibrosis drug and HRT among medications people have struggled to find, as shortages become ‘new normal’ in UKPatients have described the effect on their health and wellbeing of the “new normal” of drug shortages in the UK, which has led to three-month delays and 80-mile round trips to acquire medication.Simon Bell, a 43-year-old data analyst from Tyne and Wear, has cystic fibrosis and requires medication that allows him to digest food. “For people with cystic fibrosis, the part of...