The Pharmaceutical Journal: The lives cut short by medicine shortages (29 September 2026)

Summary

Coroners have warned public bodies six times in three years about the threat medicine shortages pose to patients. The Pharmaceutical Journal looks at the deaths behind those warnings and what pharmacists and patient groups say must change.

Further reading on the hub:

• Creon shortages: “It’s just another thing patients with cystic fibrosis could do without”

• Medication supply issues: A pharmacist’s perspective

• Medicines shortages: minimising the impact on patients (a blog by Catherine Picton)