Drug shortages are harming patients because GPs are being forced to dole out second-choice medicines Patients are being harmed because drug shortages are forcing doctors to change their prescriptions, a survey has revealed.
One in seven GPs say their patients have experienced negative side effects after they had to switch to second-choice drugs.
Shortages of medicines have this year been described as 'worse than ever' and there are concerns Brexit is contributing by causing patients and companies to stockpile.
More than a third of doctors say they 'fairly often' have to switch to less desirable drugs because of availability, while 16 per cent say they have to do it 'very often'. The Daily Mail
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One in seven GPs say their patients have experienced negative side effects after they had to switch to second-choice drugs.
Shortages of medicines have this year been described as 'worse than ever' and there are concerns Brexit is contributing by causing patients and companies to stockpile.
More than a third of doctors say they 'fairly often' have to switch to less desirable drugs because of availability, while 16 per cent say they have to do it 'very often'. The Daily Mail
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