The soaring cost of pharmaceuticals has become a major concern for Falkirk's health service, prompting calls for patients to help manage expenses by avoiding 'stockpiling' medications. Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership faces a £20 million budget shortfall over the next three years, with drug costs contributing to the challenge. The partnership is taking steps to address the rising prices, including promoting generic alternatives and implementing a more rigorous approach to prescribing.
The soaring cost of prescriptions to the health service has put the price of medication firmly in the spotlight, with Falkirk patients being urged to do their part to keep costs down by not 'stockpiling' medicines.
But there are also drugs that have been reviewed and found to have little to no clinical value, while some brands remain more expensive than generic alternatives that do exactly the same job.Mr Cowan explained that the continuing pressure on GPs, facing overwhelming workloads, was making it difficult for them to have proper conversations with people who could move to different, cheaper or even no medication.
One of the biggest ways people could help to reduce the deficit, he said is not stockpiling medicines or taking ones they won't use. "My late Dad was like a branch of Boots the Chemist - other brands are available - because of the amount of gathered medication."
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