02/12/2025
💊 Behind every unused prescription is NHS funding that can never be recovered.
Every week we receive a large return of unused medication. Due to national guidance, this medication is destroyed as, as soon they leave dispensary, we can't guarantee their safety.
Medication waste costs the NHS (or each one of us) £300 million every year, money that could fund nurses, treatments, hospitals and vital services.
The solution is easy: order only what you need and speak up if any treatment changes.
Your medications will NOT be taken from your repeat list if they haven't been ordered routinely.
The dispensary and the practice pharmacist will be available if any help is needed.
Reducing waste protects patients, improves safety and safeguards NHS resources, that ultimately comes from everyone's pockets.
The photo represents the medication wasted for one patient in a GP surgery (photo allowed to be reproduced by owner).
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💊 Y tu ôl i bob presgripsiwn nas defnyddiwyd mae a***n y GIG na ellir ei adennill byth.
Bob wythnos, rydym yn derbyn swm mawr o feddyginiaethau heb eu defnyddio yn ôl. Oherwydd canllawiau cenedlaethol, caiff y meddyginiaethau hyn eu dinistrio gan na allwn warantu eu diogelwch unwaith y byddant wedi gadael y fferyllfa.
Mae gwastraff meddyginiaeth yn costio £300 miliwn i'r GIG (neu i bob un ohonom) bob blwyddyn – a***n a allai dalu am nyrsys, triniaethau, ysbytai a gwasanaethau hanfodol.
Mae’r ateb yn syml: archebwch yn unig yr hyn sydd ei angen arnoch a rhowch wybod os bydd unrhyw newid i’ch triniaeth.
Ni fydd eich meddyginiaethau’n cael eu tynnu o’ch rhestr ailadrodd os nad ydynt wedi’u harchebu’n rheolaidd.
Bydd staff y fferyllfa a’r fferyllydd meddygol ar gael os oes angen cymorth.
Mae lleihau gwastraff yn amddiffyn cleifion, yn gwella diogelwch ac yn diogelu adnoddau’r GIG – adnoddau sy’n dod, yn y pen draw, o bocedi pawb.
