The health minister, Frederick Curzon, has launched a group to improve medicine use and cut wastage.
A government-commissioned report, “Evaluation of the scale, causes and costs of waste medicines”, published on 8 August, estimates that medicine wastage amounts to £300 million per year—of which at least half could be avoided, it says.
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