Special report: the UK’s medicines shortage crisis
Medicines shortages are a huge concern for pharmacists, with many spending hours each week sourcing alternatives. Moreover, the shortages are increasingly putting patients’ lives at risk.
Since early 2022, medicines shortages have hit the headlines on several occasions: many women have been impacted by ongoing shortages of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which peaked in May 2022 and, in December 2022, parents were left scrambling to find antibiotics for their children amid outbreaks of strep A and scarlet fever.
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