The struggle to get hold of medication in England is set to get worse

Olivier Picard, chair of the National Pharmacy Association, who also runs a pharmacy, says the current system is broken: “I lose money on over 300 medications, and they are standard everyday items like blood thinners, blood pressure meds and painkillers – the medications that people need every day. The government wants to pay very low prices for medicines but it is backfiring now.”