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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says (www.theguardian.com)

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Drug shortages in the UK have risen to their worst level for four years, official figures show, with Brexit considered a key reason so many medications are scarce.

Drug companies notified the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) about disruptions to supply 1,938 times during last year – the highest number since the 1,967 seen in 2021.

Medications to treat epilepsy and cystic fibrosis are among those that pharmacists are finding it hard or impossible to get hold of, creating risks for patients’ health.

The figures have emerged in a new report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank, which obtained them under freedom of information laws from the DHSC, which oversees the availability of drugs UK-wide.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wasn't it a non-binding referendum? I still don't get why they still 'had to do it' when it was clearly going to be a bad idea in fore and hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Taxes. The EU introduced rules of tax transparency. The UK left the EU the day before the rules kicked in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Because the people who organised it didn't like the new financial laws being implemented by the EU. Billions of pounds worth of dodgy money is laundered through the UK every year. I can't recall the exact details but the EU were implementing laws that made money transfer more transparent. So this would have meant that all this dirty money would be traceable, and Tories didn't want this being exposed because it was their mates and families all in it up to their ears.