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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Almost half of UK adults struggling to get prescription drugs amid shortages

A woman taking a box from a pharmacy shelf
There are currently 100 drugs listed as in short supply, including antibiotics, HRT and cancer medications. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

Almost half of adults in the UK have struggled to get medicine they have been prescribed – and more people blame Brexit than anything else for the situation, research shows.

Forty-nine per cent of people said they had had trouble getting a prescription dispensed over the past two years, the period during which supply problems have increased sharply.

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