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NHS medicines shortage putting lives at risk, pharmacists warn (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum, which reduces the NHS’s ability to source medicines abroad, and a government policy of taxing manufacturers.

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The EU, of which the UK is no longer a member, recently agreed to create a stockpile for key drugs and to invest in increased domestic production.

It's almost like this Brexit lark was a bad idea.

This isn't a sudden thing, it's been building for a while now and we should have been taking steps, like incentivising local manufacture for a while.