English NHS wastes £300m of drugs every year, study finds

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Up to £300m (€354m; $473m) is wasted in NHS primary and community care prescription drugs in England annually, according to a new report. The health service, however, does not have a systemic problem with drug wastage, it maintains.

The wastage includes £90m worth of unused prescription drugs stored in people’s homes, £110m returned to community pharmacies over the course of a year, and up to £50m worth of NHS supplied drugs that are disposed of annually by care homes, the research showed.

The study by the York Health Economics Consortium and the School of Pharmacy …