‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: people in UK describe stress of drug shortages
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Vital cystic fibrosis drug and HRT among medications people have struggled to find, as shortages become ‘new normal’ in UKPatients have described the effect on their health and wellbeing of the “new normal” of drug shortages in the UK, which has led to three-month delays and 80-mile round trips to acquire medication.Simon Bell, a 43-year-old data analyst from Tyne and Wear, has cystic fibrosis and requires medication that allows him to digest food. “For people with cystic fibrosis, the part of...

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