Industry body calls for greater scrutiny of patients with multiple repeat prescriptions to tackle ‘growing problem’
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/08/wasted-medicine-in-england-could-fill-75-swimming-pools-a-year-pharmacy-group-says
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I don’t like the implication that patients are somehow greedy.
This is a problem of packaging mostly, meaning you can’t have just three pills of something, it’s a blister pack of 10 at least. Maybe also of doctors overprescribing.
I don’t like the measure of swimming pools either. Is it with packaging or without? Anyhow, how much is a swimming pool? Not standardised afaik. They should’ve said how many individual pills or doses, at the very least. Slightly more precise.