Braintree: Patients waste millions on unused medicine

10:00am Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News

A campaign to stop patients wasting millions of pounds worth on unused medicine is underway.

Wasted medication costs the NHS £34million a year in the East of England alone.

This could be spent on 1,350 more nurses, 34,393 more drug treatment courses for Alzheimers or 2,271 more drug treatments for courses for breast cancer.

Patients are urged to only order what they need, return unwanted medicines to their pharmacy for safe disposal and to take their medicines with them when they go into hospital.

More advice will be given on Saturday in Market Square, Braintree, between 9am and 3pm.

Comments (6)

12:12pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Bhudeeka says...

i see yet another increase in charges on its way!
i see yet another increase in charges on its way! Bhudeeka

1:57pm Tue 23 Oct 12

sKorch says...

i don't see yet another increase in charges on its way.!
i don't see yet another increase in charges on its way.! sKorch

3:04pm Tue 23 Oct 12

The Yellow Peril says...

priceless!
priceless! The Yellow Peril

8:01am Wed 24 Oct 12

Bhudeeka says...

sKorch were you born a door handle or has it taken you years o fexperience quite abully arent you
sKorch were you born a door handle or has it taken you years o fexperience quite abully arent you Bhudeeka

8:43am Wed 24 Oct 12

sKorch says...

I feel a song coming on:-
I'd rather be a door handle than a troll"
"Yes I would"
"If I could"
"Oh Yeh"
I feel a song coming on:- I'd rather be a door handle than a troll" "Yes I would" "If I could" "Oh Yeh" sKorch

12:18pm Wed 24 Oct 12

This-is-what-I-have-to-say says...

Bhudeeka wrote:
i see yet another increase in charges on its way!
Even if there is anther increase in prescription charges, we should be grateful that we have such a good health service in the first place. We pay a fraction of the cost of what medicines cost to produce.

I bet this amount of medicine isn't wasted in countries where they have to pay the full cost of the medicine.
[quote][p][bold]Bhudeeka[/bold] wrote: i see yet another increase in charges on its way![/p][/quote]Even if there is anther increase in prescription charges, we should be grateful that we have such a good health service in the first place. We pay a fraction of the cost of what medicines cost to produce. I bet this amount of medicine isn't wasted in countries where they have to pay the full cost of the medicine. This-is-what-I-have-to-say

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