Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum, which reduces the NHS’s ability to source medicines abroad, and a government policy of taxing manufacturers.

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The EU, of which the UK is no longer a member, recently agreed to create a stockpile for key drugs and to invest in increased domestic production.

It’s almost like this Brexit lark was a bad idea.

This isn’t a sudden thing, it’s been building for a while now and we should have been taking steps, like incentivising local manufacture for a while.