{"id":449173,"date":"2026-02-02T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449173\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:34:07","slug":"people-urged-to-help-cut-13-3m-medicine-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449173\/","title":{"rendered":"People urged to help cut \u00a313.3m medicine waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NHS bosses in Coventry and Warwickshire are urging people to only order the medicines they need as they claim wasted medication is costing about \u00a313.3m a year in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They have begun a new campaign to try to cut the number prescribed unnecessarily on repeat prescriptions &#8211; and say about 1.6 million items are wasted annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The main way people can play their part is by checking the medicines they have at home when they order their repeat prescriptions and only order what they need,&#8221; a spokesperson for the area&#8217;s Integrated Care Board (ICB) said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They also urged people to give any unused medicines to a pharmacist so they do not end up polluting rivers and waterways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ICB spokesperson added that many people believed they must keep ordering medicine to get it in the future but this was not true &#8211; and they could still order it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents can also help by checking prescription bags when they leave the pharmacy to make sure it contains nothing extra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An item can be reused if is returned before it leaves the pharmacy, they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC Coventry &amp; Warwickshire on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdmkw?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbccwr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCCWR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbccwr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS bosses in Coventry and Warwickshire are urging people to only order the medicines they need as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,1058,185024,37604],"class_list":{"0":"post-449173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medicine","12":"tag-repeat-prescriptions","13":"tag-warwickshire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}