Schizophrenia drug shortage affecting patient care, College of Mental Health Pharmacy warns

Supplies of aripiprazole 10mg tablets are low until late August 2022 and there is "limited scope for alternatives".
Roz Gittins, president of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy, said: "This is yet another example of a medicines supply issue that adds to workload pressures and impacts on the ability to deliver high quality care"

Courtesy of Roz Gittins

A shortage of aripiprazole tablets across the UK is leaving healthcare professionals and patients struggling to fulfil prescriptions, the representative body for pharmacists working in mental health care has said.  

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