Once medication has been dispensed it cannot be put back into stock, and it has to be destroyed even if it is completely unused.<\/p>\n
“The best gift you can give the NHS is to make sure you order only what you need,” said Nwakunor.<\/p>\n
“The medicines will always be there. The pharmacies will always be open to supply you when you need them.”<\/p>\n
He said he understood that people ordered too much medication because they were sometimes worried about shortages. <\/p>\n
In February, Sie Ting, from Hessle Pharmacy, said he was seeing shortages of heart, blood pressure and cholesterol drugs<\/a>, and staff were spending hours trying to source substitutes.<\/p>\n “I do understand their fears and their concerns,” said Nwakunor.<\/p>\n “We will try as much as possible to source it when needed, or when it’s not available we will try to source an alternative based on the GP’s recommendation.”<\/p>\n The NPA said wasting medicine was negative for the environment, as its production and disposal had a large carbon footprint.<\/p>\n It added that medicines should be disposed of only at pharmacies as incorrect disposal could risk them getting into the water supply.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, and watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once medication has been dispensed it cannot be put back into stock, and it has to be destroyed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-583300","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\/583300","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=583300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}