{"id":10279,"date":"2025-07-21T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10279\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:00:08","slug":"stockpiling-medication-costs-surrey-nhs-12m-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10279\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockpiling medication costs Surrey NHS \u00a312m a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Surrey pharmacist has urged people in the county to cut down on medicine waste, which costs the NHS locally about \u00a312m annually, a care board says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) said it spends roughly \u00a3162m on issuing 16 million prescriptions each year but added that an estimated 1.2 million of those go unused and end up being thrown away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the medicines cannot be reused or recycled and often end up in landfill or even polluting the waterways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pharmacist Khatidja Kureeman asked people to check their supplies before ordering more to help cut down on waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Surrey pharmacist has urged people in the county to cut down on medicine waste, which costs the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-10279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}