A report is warning the UK's medicine supply chain is "broken" with drug shortages becoming the "new normal" in Britain.

A report from the Nuffield Trust has concluded that the UK is facing “constantly elevated medicine shortages,” including some antibiotics and epilepsy drugs, which are being fuelled by Brexit.

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British pharmacists are struggling to get their hands on certain medicines for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and menopause as drug supply issues intensify in the country.

The UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, and this began the complex process of de-coupling the UK regulatory regime from that of the EU. This has not been straightforward, particularly where goods move into and out of Northern Ireland (NI), where the EU rules continue to apply, from Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland (GB)), where they do not.

Global issues are factor but experts say there are problems peculiar to Britain such as rising costs post-Brexit.

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The shortages have left 70 per cent of patients surveyed by charity ADHD UK rationing their supplies.

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