Brexit has made UK medicine shortages worse, research suggests

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The UK's departure from the EU did not cause the shortages, the Nuffield Trust says, but it has made it much more difficult for the UK to cope.

Medicine shortages in the UK more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, while Brexit weakened the country's ability to tackle the issue, according to research by the Nuffield Trust. Since leaving the European Union in January 2020, shortages have become the 'new normal', including for antibiotics and epilepsy drugs, the thinktank said.

' Read more:National shortage of epilepsy medication putting thousands at riskDiabetics stuck without vital drugs as they are snapped up by obesity sufferersADHD medication supply to face 'intermittent disruption' until April Between 2022 and 2023, four drugs authorised by the European Commission were approved faster in Britain, but 56 were approved in Britain after the EC and eight had still not been approved as of March this year.

 

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