Medicine Waste Costs Scotland ￡500000 Every Year

摘要

Unused Prescription medicine is costing Scotland ￡500 000 each year according to Freedom of Information figures.rnIn Glasgow the cost was ￡120 000, while in Lothian ￡46 239 was spent in 2011/12, with 44 tonnes collected in 2011. Elsewhere, Grampian spent ￡70 638, collecting 36.4 tonnes of wastage in 2011, while Fife spent around ￡33 000 annually collecting approximately 19 tonnes. Lib Dem health spokesman, Jim Hume, said: "Disposing of medicines which are returned unused to pharmacies cost our NHS more than half a million pounds last year. "But that staggering cost is only the tip of the iceberg.