Re-using excess medicines saves €600,000 so far

An experiment to re-use medicines which have been left over by giving them to other patients has saved €600,000 so far, news website Nu.nl has reported. The anti-cancer drugs were given to other patients after a full quality control in trials run by Radboud University’s teaching hospital Radboudumc. Researcher Charlotte Bekker told broadcaster NOS that medicine to the value of €100 million is thrown away every year – often in ordinary waste or flushed down toilets. Often medicines are over-prescribed,...