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Drug shortages cost NHS £38m in November

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Ongoing drug shortages cost the NHS £38m (€43m; $51m) last month as more emergency price increases were agreed to boost stocks, an analysis has shown.1 A record 91 emergency price… Click to show full abstract

Ongoing drug shortages cost the NHS £38m (€43m; $51m) last month as more emergency price increases were agreed to boost stocks, an analysis has shown.1 A record 91 emergency price rises were agreed in November, as the NHS continued to experience supply problems that are estimated to have cost the service more than £200m since April 2017. However, the analysis, by the Evidence-Based Medicine DataLab at the University of Oxford, showed that the total amount overpaid last month was …

Keywords: 38m november; shortages cost; nhs 38m; drug shortages; cost nhs

Journal Title: British Medical Journal
Year Published: 2017

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