Ok the shortage of drugs such as Ozempic and Semalglutide both used in the treatment of diabeties is not down to Brexit.
It is down to the realisation and understanding that these drugs in injectable form are huge appetite suppressants and are therefore wanted in bulk by the "slimming industry".
Both are readily available online and easy to obtain. This is because the slimming clinics and weight loss companies order massive amounts in bulk, way more than the penny pinching NHS and let's be honest if you're a big pharma corporation who are you going to sell to.
It's yet another example of the ready made excuse of Brexit being used to hide the inadequacies of Government purchasing departments.
I accept that other drugs may be in short supply due to issues relating to Brexit but the lack of these Diabeties drugs is down to the greed of the industry to make massive profits out of idle, overweight people wanting a quick fix instead of dieting properly. Eat less + Move more = weight loss.
My wife has had her Ozempic injection changed for a less effective orally administered drug due to "Supply difficulties", yet at a local gym I can get a 28 day injectable course for £56 which is equivalent to £2 per day.
Oh and before you ask why the press don't really expose this, where do you think these clinics and online therapies advertise.
Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say
For me, the headline was borne out in the article.
The number of warnings drug companies have issued about impending supply problems for certain products has more than doubled from 648 in 2020 to 1,634 last year.
Mark Dayan, the report’s lead author and the Nuffield Trust’s Brexit programme lead, said: “The rise in shortages of vital medicines from rare to commonplace has been a shocking development that few would have expected a decade ago.”
Health charities have seen a sharp rise in calls from patients unable to obtain their usual medication. Nicola Swanborough, head of external affairs at the Epilepsy Society, said: “Our helpline has been inundated with calls from desperate people who are having to travel miles, often visiting multiple pharmacies to try and access their medication.”
Paul Rees, the chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association, which represents most of the UK’s 7,000 independently owned pharmacies, said: “Supply shortages are a real and present danger to those patients who rely on life-saving medicines for their wellbeing. Pharmacy teams have seen the problems get worse in this country over recent years, putting more patients at risk.
“Pharmacists … are spending hours a day hunting down stock, yet too often have to turn patients away. It’s distressing when pharmacy teams find themselves unable to provide a prompt medicines services, through no fault of their own.”
But Britain’s departure from the EU in 2020 has significantly aggravated the problem, laid bare the “fragility” of the country’s medicines supply networks and could lead to the situation worsening, the report said.
The UK’s exit from the single market has disrupted the previously smooth supply of drugs, for example through the creation of a requirement for customs checks at the border, as has Britain’s decision to leave the EU’s European Medicines Agency and start approving drugs itself. The UK is now much slower than the EU at making new drugs available, the report found.
Post-Brexit red tape has prompted some firms to stop supplying to the UK altogether.
It warned that Brexit had created “further risks … for the UK”. The Nuffield Trust said drug shortages could get worse because the EU’s 27 countries have recently decided to act as a unified bloc to try to minimise the impact of global scarcity, which could leave supplying Britain even less of a priority for drug companies.
The ready availability of the diabetic drugs in health farms, slimming clinics and the fitness world prove that there is no shortage due to Brexit otherwise they would be outrageously priced and difficult to source.
Yes some drugs now are unavailable due to us leaving the EU and I concede that. However, put Ozempic and Semalglutide, 2 of the drugs that apparently are unavailable to pharmacies and GP services into google and see just how much is available to buy. It's even available through Amazon.
In fact as I type this I'm scrolling page after page on google offering me all types of deals from single pens about 7 shots from £35 to a whole course for £138
So it would appear that the manufacture and supply is running perfectly for everybody with the exception of the NHS
The problem in the UK is that the failure of any industry, corporation, enterprise or service is instantly blamed on Brexit.
As I've stated before it's a ready made excuse, immediately leaped upon by the media.
The ready availability of the diabetic drugs in health farms, slimming clinics and the fitness world prove that there is no shortage due to Brexit otherwise they would be outrageously priced and difficult to source.
Yes some drugs now are unavailable due to us leaving the EU and I concede that. However, put Ozempic and Semalglutide, 2 of the drugs that apparently are unavailable to pharmacies and GP services into google and see just how much is available to buy. It's even available through Amazon.
In fact as I type this I'm scrolling page after page on google offering me all types of deals from single pens about 7 shots from £35 to a whole course for £138
So it would appear that the manufacture and supply is running perfectly for everybody with the exception of the NHS
The problem in the UK is that the failure of any industry, corporation, enterprise or service is instantly blamed on Brexit.
As I've stated before it's a ready made excuse, immediately leaped upon by the media.
The article clearly goes through the drugs we are short of, and the reasons why. It says that in general this was not caused by Brexit, but exacerbated by it. The number of shortages has dramatically increased since Brexit. We also take longer than the EU to approve drugs. The border checks have slowed down the supply chain. The EU have apparently reached an agreement to prioritise supplies to members, which may further increase the number of shortages in the future. There is no doubt in my mind that this problem is at least partly due to our own incompetence. Although this should not really come as a surprise.
Total number of UK students "flocking" to Spain? 1,645, many of which are on 4-year courses. In total.
According to the Daily Torygraph, student visa applications to the UK have "plummeted" by 15% this year. In the first 9 months of 2023, the UK approved 408,966 student visas (with an undisclosed amount of Dependants to be added to that). 100,000 from China alone.
Unknown how many never leave. But certainly far more than the vilified, desperate, "illegals"
Visa crackdown causes plunge in family members of foreign students coming to UK
Acrackdown on foreign students’ visas has slashed the number of dependants they are bringing into the UK by 80 per cent, Home Office figures show.
The data revealed that the number of dependants granted visas to join their student spouse or parent in the UK has fallen from 32,900 in the first quarter of 2023 to 6,700 in the same period this year.
"They are part of a package of measures aimed to reduce net migration by 300,000, after a record high of 745,000 in 2022. This was nearly three times the pre-Brexit level of 250,000 and blew apart the Conservative manifesto pledge to reduce net migration."
So. Pre-Brexit net migration was 250,000. Now 745,000. And the plan is to try and cut that to 450,000
Focussing on the Dependants. While letting in hundreds of thousands of foreign students. And for what? Our Universities claim they cannot make a profit, and we don't own them...
"They are part of a package of measures aimed to reduce net migration by 300,000, after a record high of 745,000 in 2022. This was nearly three times the pre-Brexit level of 250,000 and blew apart the Conservative manifesto pledge to reduce net migration."
So. Pre-Brexit net migration was 250,000. Now 745,000. And the plan is to try and cut that to 450,000
Focussing on the Dependants. While letting in hundreds of thousands of foreign students. And for what? Our Universities claim they cannot make a profit, and we don't own them...
They seem incapable of implementing an intelligent plan for anything. It makes you think Baldrick in charge. Here is yet another cunning plan.
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Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say
For me, the headline was borne out in the article.
The number of warnings drug companies have issued about impending supply problems for certain products has more than doubled from 648 in 2020 to 1,634 last year.
Mark Dayan, the report’s lead author and the Nuffield Trust’s Brexit programme lead, said: “The rise in shortages of vital medicines from rare to commonplace has been a shocking development that few would have expected a decade ago.”
Health charities have seen a sharp rise in calls from patients unable to obtain their usual medication. Nicola Swanborough, head of external affairs at the Epilepsy Society, said: “Our helpline has been inundated with calls from desperate people who are having to travel miles, often visiting multiple pharmacies to try and access their medication.”
Paul Rees, the chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association, which represents most of the UK’s 7,000 independently owned pharmacies, said: “Supply shortages are a real and present danger to those patients who rely on life-saving medicines for their wellbeing. Pharmacy teams have seen the problems get worse in this country over recent years, putting more patients at risk.
“Pharmacists … are spending hours a day hunting down stock, yet too often have to turn patients away. It’s distressing when pharmacy teams find themselves unable to provide a prompt medicines services, through no fault of their own.”
But Britain’s departure from the EU in 2020 has significantly aggravated the problem, laid bare the “fragility” of the country’s medicines supply networks and could lead to the situation worsening, the report said.
The UK’s exit from the single market has disrupted the previously smooth supply of drugs, for example through the creation of a requirement for customs checks at the border, as has Britain’s decision to leave the EU’s European Medicines Agency and start approving drugs itself. The UK is now much slower than the EU at making new drugs available, the report found.
Post-Brexit red tape has prompted some firms to stop supplying to the UK altogether.
It warned that Brexit had created “further risks … for the UK”. The Nuffield Trust said drug shortages could get worse because the EU’s 27 countries have recently decided to act as a unified bloc to try to minimise the impact of global scarcity, which could leave supplying Britain even less of a priority for drug companies.
Yes some drugs now are unavailable due to us leaving the EU and I concede that. However, put Ozempic and Semalglutide, 2 of the drugs that apparently are unavailable to pharmacies and GP services into google and see just how much is available to buy. It's even available through Amazon.
In fact as I type this I'm scrolling page after page on google offering me all types of deals from single pens about 7 shots from £35 to a whole course for £138
So it would appear that the manufacture and supply is running perfectly for everybody with the exception of the NHS
The problem in the UK is that the failure of any industry, corporation, enterprise or service is instantly blamed on Brexit.
As I've stated before it's a ready made excuse, immediately leaped upon by the media.
It says that in general this was not caused by Brexit, but exacerbated by it.
The number of shortages has dramatically increased since Brexit.
We also take longer than the EU to approve drugs.
The border checks have slowed down the supply chain.
The EU have apparently reached an agreement to prioritise supplies to members, which may further increase the number of shortages in the future.
There is no doubt in my mind that this problem is at least partly due to our own incompetence.
Although this should not really come as a surprise.
Theres a surprise.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexit-betrayal-as-labour-is-tipped-to-re-align-uk-with-eu-rules/ar-AA1nzGXk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=0de9050100c54a44983bee0b7e2caaf6&ei=59
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/post-brexit-trade-deals-have-made-selling-wine-abroad-more-difficult-and-expensive-wine-society-ceo-says/ar-AA1nAPs8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=0de9050100c54a44983bee0b7e2caaf6&ei=113
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/illegal-migrant-cannot-stay-in-uk-after-2-decades-trying-to-deport-him/ar-AA1nBsGI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=5c24696a258d40a1b1d2c60a3b5d7837&ei=38
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ireland-reaps-700m-brexit-bonanza-from-customs-duties/ar-AA1nPVLB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=659d4c612c924a258999da7892fa8e1b&ei=10
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/all-the-problems-with-today-s-new-brexit-border-controls/ar-AA1nUbUS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=e1b9c31c617546c49ec79b93e3f58b8c&ei=16
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/horrendous-and-chaotic-border-checks-will-increase-food-prices-ministers-hear/ar-AA1nSjKU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=11d0238fc0e1456dfcf66f6922f839df&ei=13
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/eu-food-importers-say-post-brexit-checks-could-increase-their-costs-by-60/ar-AA1nVZen?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=aef3dc3a77224dce9058ee4833cbe53d&ei=11
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pz0vjd57o
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk-students-flock-to-spain-after-brexit-thanks-to-eu-rule-change/ar-AA1nXLNV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=fd28d76f69ac40bfee646c75909412de&ei=13
According to the Daily Torygraph, student visa applications to the UK have "plummeted" by 15% this year. In the first 9 months of 2023, the UK approved 408,966 student visas (with an undisclosed amount of Dependants to be added to that). 100,000 from China alone.
Unknown how many never leave. But certainly far more than the vilified, desperate, "illegals"
Acrackdown on foreign students’ visas has slashed the number of dependants they are bringing into the UK by 80 per cent, Home Office figures show.
The data revealed that the number of dependants granted visas to join their student spouse or parent in the UK has fallen from 32,900 in the first quarter of 2023 to 6,700 in the same period this year.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/number-of-foreign-student-family-members-coming-to-uk-falls-by-80pc/ar-AA1nVFNe
"They are part of a package of measures aimed to reduce net migration by 300,000, after a record high of 745,000 in 2022. This was nearly three times the pre-Brexit level of 250,000 and blew apart the Conservative manifesto pledge to reduce net migration."
So. Pre-Brexit net migration was 250,000. Now 745,000. And the plan is to try and cut that to 450,000
Focussing on the Dependants. While letting in hundreds of thousands of foreign students. And for what? Our Universities claim they cannot make a profit, and we don't own them...
It makes you think Baldrick in charge.
Here is yet another cunning plan.