Increasing drug shortages are threatening patient care, but Australia’s drug regulator, the TGA, says it is not responsible for monitoring the situation, pharmacists reveal.
Responding to suggestions that reports of medicines shortages were a “storm in a teacup”, pharmacists from John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, said they posed a very real threat to patient care.
In a letter published in the Medical Journal of Australia, they said Australia was experiencing similar drug shortages as the US and UK, but nothing was being done to rectify the problem.
“Governments in the US and UK are taking decisive action to rectify this problem,” the authors said.
“However, the issue remains unrecognised in Australia, and the TGA has indicated to the authors that monitoring...
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