Medicine shortages ‘around double what they were a year ago’
Medicine shortages have increased and are “around double what they were a year ago”, it has been claimed.
Speaking to the Health and Social Care Committee on Monday, Mark Samuels, chief executive of the British Generic Manufacturers Association (BGMA), said they have been highlighting the medicine shortage risk to ministers since July 2021 and the BGMA is “very concerned about it”.
He said: “We’ve been monitoring it for several years now, and as you saw in
