Almost half of UK adults struggling to get prescription drugs amid shortages
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/16/almost-half-uk-adults-struggling-prescription-drugs-medicine-shortages
Posted by peakedtooearly
Almost half of UK adults struggling to get prescription drugs amid shortages
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/16/almost-half-uk-adults-struggling-prescription-drugs-medicine-shortages
Posted by peakedtooearly
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I’m surprised half of the UK population are even prescribed anything at all
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I’m only one person so I’m obviously not statistically relevant at all but I have an illness that requires me to easily get 10+ prescriptions per month, quite a few are less common or fairly new drugs.
That said, I haven’t had any issues at all getting the medication I need. Not once.
Sometimes the local small chemist doesn’t have the medication I need in stock but they order it for collection the following day. This isn’t down to shortages but down to some of my medication being more uncommon and not stocked everywhere.
I’ve only good things to say about the NHS treatment I’ve have and the chemist.
I live in a major city and couldn’t get my prescription (a very common one) even after going to five different Boots outlets. It’s the same nearly every month.
My parents changed pharmacy as their local one was bought out and all medications were now being shipped from a ‘hub’ in Stoke-on-Trent to North Wales.
NHS Wales app said “allow 7 working days for delivery”, which just seems inefficient to me. I don’t know why they couldn’t also have a ‘local’ depot for North Wales in Wrexham or Conwy or something.
The other noticeable change was the drugs being prescribed were the right dose, but they were both getting different brands every few months!