{"id":91866,"date":"2026-07-14T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91866"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:10","slug":"patients-waiting-weeks-for-vital-drugs-with-pharmacy-shortages-worst-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/14\/patients-waiting-weeks-for-vital-drugs-with-pharmacy-shortages-worst-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients waiting weeks for vital drugs with pharmacy shortages &#8216;worst in 40 years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA27RUVC.img?w=760&h=506&m=6\" alt=\"Pharmacists are spending hours trying to source patient medicines due to shortages (Photo: Leon Neal\/Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pharmacies across England are struggling to serve patients due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/free-covid-jabs-axe-cash-strapped-pharmacies-4285205?srsltid=AfmBOorqyMMbcQ3Ize2uG-XfgzbNd-rpl-kahvfCl-BWUzrZBsIFj3BQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">severe financial losses<\/a> and medicine shortages, meaning patients face waits of several weeks to receive critical medication.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/patients-waiting-weeks-for-vital-drugs-with-pharmacy-shortages-worst-in-40-years\/ar-AA27R4zE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=2aafe569b725437292c883d089e4ad0a&ei=17\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Pharmacies across England are struggling to serve patients due to\u00a0severe financial losses and medicine shortages, meaning patients face waits of several weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/prescription.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91867,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91866\/revisions\/91867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}