{"id":113368,"date":"2025-11-03T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113368\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:17:09","slug":"surrey-pharmacists-call-for-action-on-medicines-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113368\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey pharmacists call for action on medicines waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An increasing volume of unused medicines are being returned by patients at a significant cost to the NHS, Surrey pharmacists have warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) said it spent about \u00a3176m on medicines every year, issuing 16 million prescriptions, but that roughly 1.2 million units were returned unused at a cost of \u00a312m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharn Dev, community pharmacy PCN lead in Surrey, said: &#8220;This not only highlights the financial impact on the NHS, but also the environmental consequences of disposing of large quantities of unused medicines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department of Health and Social Care has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An increasing volume of unused medicines are being returned by patients at a significant cost to the NHS,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":{"0":"post-113368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}