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Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Fudoshin@feddit.uk to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So there are cheaper generics available and they are forcing people to go without?

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

Sort off. But much more complex.

not all drugs have generic options. This would only solve a % of the issues. As many newer groups can still be under patient. Sometimes for more the 40 years after discovery.

Lets just say pharmaceutical companies find lawyers a valid expense.

but more to the point. Even generics only help if we can get them. Our NHS has restrictions on what they can charge the gov to supply certain drugs. All calculated on global prices. But when it costs more for a company in the EU to send drugs to the UK. Then to send those same drugs to an EU nation. Guess who gets them first.

So the issue is more about a price cut obsessed government being willing to admit their choices on how to implement brexit. Had a cost.

Not a very politically effective thing for them to do.

So they shove head in the sand and shout nope its down to the pharmacists to find better deals.

And this has been happening since before covid.