ONGOING drug shortages cost Britain's National Health Service (NHS) 38m (AU$66.2m) last month as more emergency price increases were agreed to boost stocks, according to an analysis by the Evidence-Based Medicine DataLab at the University of Oxford.
There were a record 91 emergency price rises agreed in November, as the NHS continued to experience supply problems that are estimated to have cost the service more than 200m since April 2017.
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