{"id":703121,"date":"2026-07-21T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703121\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:33:08","slug":"unused-medicines-costing-jersey-500k-a-year-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703121\/","title":{"rendered":"Unused medicines costing Jersey \u00a3500k a year &#8211; government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The amount of unused medicines is estimated to be costing about \u00a3500,000 a year in Jersey, says the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has asked islanders to manage orders more carefully to help manage medicine supplies, protect healthcare resources and minimise environmental impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said such waste remained a &#8220;significant issue&#8221; and, in the UK, up to 10% of all medicine dispensed was wasted and about half of all medicines returned to pharmacies for disposal was unopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said a new awareness campaign about the issue was not aiming to restrict access to medicine, or for people to go without treatment, but was asking them to &#8220;only order the items they currently need&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The amount of unused medicines is estimated to be costing about \u00a3500,000 a year in Jersey, says the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703121","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\/703121","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=703121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}