Opinion: Even the cleverest analysis will only prolong the medicine shortage

It’s been a while since I was dragged in front of the B-word, but thanks to the medicine shortage, here we are. Remember those grotesque days in 2016? All those odious ageing chancers on the make. What a cast of horrors. 

Covid-19 Shortage theme with a doctor using a tablet computer, drug shortage
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I’ll spare you the reminders, you know who they are. They carry the mark of Brexit with them wherever they go. But annoyingly, so do the rest of us.

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James Halliwell joined C+D as editor-in-chief in February 2024. A business journalist for the last 15 years, he’s looking forward to developing the bond between C+D and its readers and bringing them more of what they want to read, in the evolving ways they want to read it.

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