Revealed: NHS running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines
Internal document seen by the Guardian shows low supplies for heart, cancer and anti-epilepsy drugs
The NHS is running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines including treatments for cancer, heart conditions and epilepsy, the Guardian has learned.
An internal 24-page document circulated to some doctors last Friday from the medicine supply team at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), headed “commercial-sensitive”, listed many drugs currently hit by shortages at the NHS.