{"id":413728,"date":"2026-04-23T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413728\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:28:11","slug":"pharmacies-issue-serious-warning-for-anyone-taking-ramipril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413728\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacies issue ‘serious’ warning for anyone taking ramipril"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Government has been urged to change the rulesNeil Shaw<\/a> Assistant Editor (Money and Lifestyle)<\/p>\n

11:54, 23 Apr 2026Updated 13:22, 23 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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The medication is taken to control blood pressure<\/p>\n

Pharmacies have warned of supply issues affecting everyday medicines after a \u201cserious\u201d shortage warning was issued. Officials said there is a shortage issue affecting a certain dosage of ramipril, a high blood pressure medication, across the UK.<\/p>\n

The medication, which can be taken as tablets, capsules or as a liquid, works by widening the blood vessels and making it easier for the heart to pump blood around the body. A \u201cserious shortage protocol\u201d notice has been issued for ramipril 1.25mg capsules, which says patients can only get one month\u2019s worth of supplies at a time.<\/p>\n

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) said three million items of ramipril are prescribed every month in England. 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

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There is a shortage of some types of ramipril<\/p>\n

\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

\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. Pharmacies are increasingly facing supply problems affecting everyday medicines on which millions rely every day.<\/p>\n

\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

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The drug is commonly used in the UK<\/p>\n

\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

The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has been urged to change the rulesNeil Shaw Assistant Editor (Money and Lifestyle) 11:54, 23 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1911,103,61,60,371,1912],"class_list":{"0":"post-413728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-blood-pressure","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-prescriptions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}