Details of new measures to tackle medicines supply problems, agreed at this week's summit on the issue (PJ, 6 March 2010, p229), have been released by the Department of Health, which described them as "tough".The actions include a more explicit duty for manufacturers and wholesalers to ensure that sufficient stocks of medicines are available to NHS patients, a series of proactive targeted inspections by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and tougher standards for the issue of wholesale dealer's licences.
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