Stakeholder Views on the Idea of Medicines Reuse in the UK

People’s views about medicines reuse are being examined in a handful of qualitative studies and this commentary adds to that work by drawing on our own discussions with groups stakeholders the UK past two years. The within community pharmacy setting is not permitted but multidisciplinary team anticipates position will change coming years as medication shortages worries environmental waste financial losses from destruction unused brought fore. Indeed, for many stakeholders, issue strong feature conversations reuse. In addition this, identify numerous barriers UK. This includes current uncertainty quality returned pharmacies, which could otherwise be reused. However, have also been very willing propose solutions range existing barriers. Our draws stakeholder meetings elaborate context. challenge move forward these advance technologies facilitate practically well legally.