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The Guardian has produced a similar article. It includes:
Global manufacturing problems linked to Covid, inflation, the war in Ukraine and global instability have helped cause the UK’s unprecedented inability to ensure patients can access drugs.
Was COVID, inflation, war in the Ukraine and global instability caused by Brexit? I would say not.
“A clear picture emerged of underlying fragilities at a global and UK level, not fundamentally rooted in Brexit but exacerbated by it in some specific ways,
Was global fagility caused by Brexit? I would say not.
The fact that the fall in sterling’s value after the Brexit vote in 2016 coincided with drugs being in much shorter supply globally due to pharmaceutical firms experiencing shortages of ingredients
Was the global shortage of ingredients for drugs caused by Brexit? I would say not.
The Pound to Euro today is 1 to 1.17. The same as it was in 2013.
The EU is also facing difficulties:
European healthcare providers and their patients have been grappling with medicine shortages for years, an issue that has slowly been morphing into a chronic ailment before reaching a fever pitch last winter
the EU’s drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), launched an official investigation into what was causing shortages, as it confirmed that 25 out of 27 EU countries lacked critical drugs like amoxicillin and other vital antibiotics, as well as medications crucial for patients fighting cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other serious illnesses.
The link is
Bitter pills: Medicine shortages in the EU (theparliamentmagazine.eu)