{"id":453422,"date":"2026-03-02T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:16:07","slug":"uk-shortage-forces-staffordshire-family-to-source-drug-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453422\/","title":{"rendered":"UK shortage forces Staffordshire family to source drug abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to look at this on a human level, this could be ring fenced for people who need it,&#8221; Anthony said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told BBC Radio Stoke that he was becoming increasingly frustrated with the situation and called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My message to him is please help us to get this drug back in supply most urgently because it improves quality of life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: they were aware that some hyoscine hydrobromide patches were out of stock in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The resupply date is yet to be confirmed by the supplier, however, we have issued comprehensive management guidance to the NHS, including all GPs and community pharmacists, to minimise the impact on patients,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We continue to work with the supplier and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, to resolve the issue as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to look at this on a human level, this could be ring fenced for people who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}