{"id":180222,"date":"2025-06-13T04:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180222\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T04:55:21","slug":"channel-island-pharmacists-confirm-digestion-drug-shortage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180222\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Island pharmacists confirm digestion drug shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Pharmacists in the Channel Islands have confirmed they are dealing with an ongoing shortage of a drug used by cancer patients.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows a shortage of Creon, a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (Pert), being described by pharmacists in the UK as  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3wdlxdj6x3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;one of the worst&#8221; examples of a medicine shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drug does not treat cancer but is used by patients with pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis and chronic pancreatitis to help with digestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson from the Guernsey Prescribing Support Unit said there have been ongoing supply issues with Pert since summer 2024, with the department of health in England issuing a national patient safety alert in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmacists in the Channel Islands have confirmed they are dealing with an ongoing shortage of a drug used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-180222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114674278383721485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}