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Diabetes injection pen shortage to persist until ‘at least’ end of 2024

 
• By Kate Bowie

Prescribing and dispensing organisations must limit prescriptions to licensed indications only and switch some patients from the injection pens to tablets by March, the government has said. 

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The DH said the shortage has been caused by an increased in demand for "off-label indications”
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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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