Five things to know about the restrictions:
- It applies to 24 drugs including hormone replacement therapy drugs, contraceptives, adrenaline pens and Hepatitis B vaccines.
- The decision to restrict exports is an effort to mitigate medication shortages after a survey of British pharmacists found shortages of every major type of drug in the past six months.
- All drugs on the list are in short supply in the U.K. and the government wants to ensure that National Health Service patients have access to them.
- The restrictions aren’t directly linked to Brexit, according to British Prime Ministers, though Brexit is expected to bring drug shortages.
- This is the first time a ban of this kind has been put in place, according to the report.
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