Patients face medicine shortages as private market buys up drugs

By Mimi Launder2023-07-04T06:04:00

A critical year-long shortage of vital type 2 diabetes medicines is being driven partly by its demand as a weight loss aid, with figures suggesting more than half the prescribing for one drug is through the private market, HSJ has learned.

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