{"id":580126,"date":"2026-08-10T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:12:14","slug":"wasted-medicines-could-fill-up-75-swimming-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/580126\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasted medicines could fill up 75 swimming pools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some patients are ordering more medication just in case it is needed later, rather than because it is necessary at the time, the NPA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that patients on complex medication regimes are more likely to return unused medicines or unopened boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) previously said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8jpjle488xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spending about \u00a310m a year<\/a> on medicines that go unused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NPA believed more checks for patients on several repeat prescriptions would help to reduce wastage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If a patient has any concerns about their medicines, they should speak to their pharmacist who can help them get the most out of their medicines,&#8221; Picard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted the NHS for a response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some patients are ordering more medication just in case it is needed later, rather than because it is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-580126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580126","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=580126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}