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Help Reduce Medicine Waste

Help Reduce Medicine Waste

Every year, large amounts of unused medicines are returned to pharmacies or thrown away. Medicine waste costs the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds annually and can contribute to medicine shortages and environmental harm.

How You Can Help

Only order what you need

  • Check your medicines before requesting repeats.
  • Do not order medicines that you already have enough of at home.

Review your medicines regularly

  • Tell the practice or pharmacist if you have stopped taking a medicine or if your dose has changed.
  • Attend medication review appointments when invited.

Check before leaving the pharmacy

  • Ensure you only collect medicines that you need.
  • Ask questions if anything has changed.

Store medicines correctly

  • Follow storage instructions to prevent medicines from becoming unusable.
  • Keep medicines out of reach of children.

Return unwanted medicines safely

  • Do not throw medicines in household waste or flush them down the toilet.
  • Return unwanted or expired medicines to your local pharmacy for safe disposal.

Why It Matters

Reducing medicine waste helps:

  • Save NHS resources for patient care.
  • Reduce environmental impact.
  • Improve medicine availability for those who need it.
  • Support safer use of medicines.

Please help us reduce medicine waste by ordering only the medicines you need