Revealed: NHS running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines Internal document seen by the Guardian shows low supplies for heart, cancer and anti-epilepsy drugs
The NHS is running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines including treatments for cancer, heart conditions and epilepsy, the Guardian has learned.
An internal 24-page document circulated to some doctors last Friday from the medicine supply team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), headed “commercial-sensitive”, listed many drugs currently hit by shortages at the NHS.
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The NHS is running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines including treatments for cancer, heart conditions and epilepsy, the Guardian has learned.
An internal 24-page document circulated to some doctors last Friday from the medicine supply team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), headed “commercial-sensitive”, listed many drugs currently hit by shortages at the NHS.
See also:
- Patients shouldn't panic or stockpile in the wake of medicine supply shortages, says RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners
- Britain's 'unprecedented' drug shortage BBC News
- NHS is short of 86 drugs including cancer, epilepsy and heart disease The Daily Mail
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