{"id":625979,"date":"2026-04-23T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:33:11","slug":"pharmacies-warn-of-supply-problems-amid-ramipril-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625979\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacies warn of \u2018supply problems\u2019 amid ramipril shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">NPA chairman Olivier Picard said: \u201cWe are concerned by this recent shortage, with a number of pharmacies being unable to order some strengths of ramipril as well as seeing the cost soar in recent weeks, in instances where stock can be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cMillions of patients rely on ramipril and although there are alternative medicines available, supplies of these must be managed carefully by the Government to ensure subsequent demand can be met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThe Government should allow pharmacists to make substitutions to ramipril prescriptions to ensure patients do not have to go back to their GP to find an alternative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cPharmacies are increasingly facing supply problems affecting everyday medicines on which millions rely every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cWhilst the medicine supply chain is extremely complex, the rising problem of shortages across a wide range of medication is extremely worrying for patients and heartbreaking for pharmacists who go to great lengths to ensure they don\u2019t turn them away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cFragility in the global supply chain is worsened by international instability and the fact that long term under-funding of pharmacies has driven down the price for medicines in the UK to unsustainable levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NPA chairman Olivier Picard said: \u201cWe are concerned by this recent shortage, with a number of pharmacies being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-625979","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\/625979","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=625979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}