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The list of Medicines affected by no-deal Brexit

TruePublica Editor: My advice is that you copy the link for this article and send it to your friends and family. You could also post it to social media if you think your wider friendship group would benefit from it. What is becoming clear in this extract from the UK’s supply chain of medicines is the sheer scale already affected by either physical shortages or price increases as a direct result of Brexit, currently expected at the end of October. The breadth of conditions the shortages these medicines apply to is very wide, covering all age groups and everything from birth control, diabetes and painkillers to antibiotics, Parkinson’s and cancer treatments.



E-Surgery.com is an online GP and pharmacy service offering consultations, private prescriptions for commonly prescribed medication, and medication. They are regulated by the GMC and National Pharmacy Association.

They have posted this list, which they say is not comprehensive but covers most of the medications currently experiencing shortages or price hikes. The list is compiled by UK suppliers that also supply NHS hospitals and GP’s.

Here is an excerpt from their report on pharmacy supplies:

“There are already widespread reports of delays in Pharmacies due to unavailable medication, even for relatively common drugs. Many patients report being negatively affected by this, as drug shortages potentially endanger many. For your information, we can share with you the following medications which our suppliers have expressed concern about, either because there are worries around availability or because prices are already rising as a result of stockpiling – leading to real concerns over post-Brexit costs and supply. This list was compiled from our most up to date information from our UK suppliers and is not exhaustive. These are the same pharmaceutical suppliers that supply all NHS hospitals and GP surgeries.”


Acamprosate (Campral) – prescribed alongside counselling to treat alcohol dependence.
Aciclovir (Acyclovir) – an antiviral medication primarily used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox, and shingles.
Allopurinol – to decrease high blood uric acid levels. It is specifically used to prevent gout, prevent specific types of kidney stones and for the high uric acid levels that can occur with chemotherapy.
Amlodipine – is a medication used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) and coronary artery disease.
Baclofen – to treat spasticity. It is used as a central nervous system depressant and skeletal muscle relaxant.
Bendroflumethiazide – used in the management of hypertension (high blood pressure). Brinzolamide Eye Drops– used to treat ocular hypertension and open-angle glaucoma.
Calcipotriol ointment – for the treatment of psoriasis.
Candesartan – used for the treatment of hypertension and congestive heart failure.
Cetirizine – a second-generation antihistamine.
Citalopram – an antidepressant used to treat major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.
Co-careldopa – used to manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Co-codamol tablets – pain relief when ibuprofen, aspirin, or naproxen alone do not sufficiently relieve a patient’s symptoms.
Cyclizine – a medication used to treat and prevent nausea, vomiting and dizziness due to motion sickness or vertigo.
Desogestrel (Cerelle) – a progestin medication which is used in birth control pills for women. It is also used in the treatment of menopausal symptoms in women.
Dihydrocodeine – prescribed for pain or severe dyspnea.
Dispersible Aspirin tablets – to treat pain, fever, or inflammation.
Dosulepin (Prothiaden) – is used in the treatment of depression.
Doxycycline – an antibiotic used in the treatment of pneumonia, acne, chlamydia infections, early Lyme disease, cholera and syphilis.
Esomeprazole (Nexium) – a proton-pump inhibitor which reduces stomach acid.
Exemestane (Aromasin) – a medication used to treat breast cancer.
Finasteride (Proscar/Propecia) – to treat an enlarged prostate or scalp hair loss in men. It can also be used to treat excessive hair growth in women and as a part of hormone therapy for transgender women.
Glimepiride (Amaryl) – an anti-diabetic medication.
Hydrocortisone – a steroid medicine that is used in the treatment of many different conditions, including allergic disorders, skin conditions, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, or lung disorders.
Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) – used for the prevention and treatment of certain types of malaria as well as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria cutanea tarda.
Irbesartan – used for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).
Lansoprazole – to control the stomach’s production of gastric acid, effectively controlling pH inside the stomach.
Liquid Carbamazepine (Tegretol) – to treat epilepsy, neuropathic pain, and schizophrenia.
Lisinopril – to treat hypertension (high blood pressure), heart failure, and after heart attacks.
Lofepramine (Gamanil/Lomont/Tymelyt) – a tricyclic antidepressant which is used to treat depression.
Losartan (Cozaar) – used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure). Other uses include for diabetic kidney disease, heart failure, and left ventricular enlargement.
Meloxicam (Mobic) – anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and osteoarthritis.
Metformin (Glucophage) – type 2 diabetes medication.
Metoclopramide – commonly used to treat and prevent nausea and vomiting, to help with emptying of the stomach in people with delayed stomach emptying, gastroenteritis and to help with gastroesophageal reflux disease. It is also used to treat migraine headaches.
Metronidazole (Flagyl) – used either alone or with other antibiotics to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis.
Naproxen (Aleve/Naprosyn) – an anti-inflammatory used to treat pain, menstrual cramps, inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and fever.
Nebivolol – used for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).
Nifedipine (Adalat) – used to manage angina, hypertension (high blood pressure), Raynaud’s phenomenon, and premature labour.
Nortriptyline (Allegron/Aventyl/Noritren/Nortrilen/Pamelor) – used to treat clinical depression. Another licensed use for it is in the treatment of childhood bedwetting
Olanzapine (Zyprexa) – an antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Olmesartan – used for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure).
Omeprazole – is a medication used in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer disease, and Zollinger–Ellison syndrome.
Oxybutynin – to relieve urinary and bladder difficulties, including frequent urination and inability to control urination, by decreasing muscle spasms of the bladder. It is also given to help with symptoms associated with kidney stones.
Prednisolone – a steroid medication used to treat certain types of allergies, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, and cancers.
Pregabalin (Lyrica) – used to treat epilepsy, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Quetiapine (Seroquel) – an antipsychotic used for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.
Rasagiline – used as a monotherapy to treat symptoms in early Parkinson’s disease or as an adjunct therapy in more advanced cases.
Ramipril – used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure.
Risperidone (Risperdal) – an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and irritability associated with autism.
Ropinirole – used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and restless legs syndrome.
Sertraline (Zoloft) – an antidepressant medication used to treat major depressive disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and social anxiety disorder.
Sildenafil (Viagra) – used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Sodium valproate (or valproate sodium) – an anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy, anorexia nervosa, panic attack, anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, migraine and bipolar disorder, as well as other psychiatric conditions requiring the administration of a mood stabiliser.
Sotalol – to treat abnormal heart rhythms.
Tamsulosin (Flomax) – for symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia, chronic prostatitis, and to help with the passage of kidney stones.
Telmisartan – used in the management of hypertension (high blood pressure).
Tibolone – for menopausal hormone therapy and in the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis and endometriosis.
Valsartan – mainly used for treatment of high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, and to increase the chances of living longer after a heart attack.
Venlafaxine (Effexor) – an antidepressant medication used to treat major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia.
Zopiclone – used in the treatment of insomnia.

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I do not usually post anything political, but I feel very strongly that a no deal brexit will have horrendous consequences for the UK, firstly for the reasons above. I can only get one months supply of medication from my UK gp, whereas I usually get two months for our visits to Cyprus. I brought my prescription over to Cyprus and paid privately at the local pharmacist for my second months supply of medications.

No deal will mean our EHIC is invalid, and no doubt our travel insurance premiums will increase, because at present, it states we must use the state services if we are taken ill. We will need an International Driving Licence and, we will only be able to stay for 90 days in every 180 days, which, during the first part of the year we exceed. So, we will need to apply for residencey or get a visa.

And that is just how a no deal will affect us. I won't mention what may happen to our local economy in North Wales, farming, Airbus and the motor manufacturing plants on Merseyside and Deeside.
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The shortages of clinicians is now at breaking point. My town has 13,500 registered with the only health centre. There should be 8 doctors. There are currently 4 part-timers. A prescription takes 15 working days to get. The 4 part-timers have now decided to hand back to NHS Scotland and it will run directly (did you all know that all GPs are self-employed?)

Scotland has at least 500 GPs leaving practice this year and have only identified 35 replacements. Consultants are leaving for much higher paying jobs in the middle-east, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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There are huge shortages in nursing and the care sector. I get notifications from an NHS for Europe page and have read about thousands of nurses going back to their own countries, not specifically because of Brexit but because of the huge increase in the levels of racism in the UK. Our GP surgery is surviving on one family doctor and locums. There used to be five doctors, now only one, and the vacancies have been there for two years. The four doctors who retired could not be replaced.

Our local economy depends on firms like Airbus, the car plants on Merseyside and Deeside. Also Bangor University is a huge employer, with lots of foreign students. Their degrees may not be recognised under a no deal.
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Then problems aren’t solely Brexit. Austerity and a general malaise in the NHS is also to blame. We have had loads of talk of more money for health and care and no action. It is now at crisis and I wonder what private solution will soon be proposed by Boris and his cronies.
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'I don’t think anyone really knows': Tory chancellor Sajid Javid admits he cannot say how much no-deal Brexit will cost
Sajid Javid does not knock down his watchdog’s warning of a £30bn a year hit, saying: 'I’ve never pretended it won’t be challenging'

The Chancellor says no-one "really knows" how much crashing out of the EU will cost the country - undermining repeated ministerial claims that the damage will be minimal and short-term.
Sajid Javid did not dispute his own watchdog's warning of a £30bn a year hit, saying: "I've never pretended that if you leave without a deal it won't be challenging."
And he acknowledged the severe impact on businesses, "especially if you a trader with the EU".
Speaking ahead of his Conservative conference speech, Mr Javid also condemned a call by a former Tory cabinet minister to publish the government's Brexit proposals as a "ridiculous suggestion".
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From what friends were saying in the UK it seems that the average Brit seems to know far less about the impact a of no deal Brexit, than we do here. The implications for the UK as well as for us living here of a no deal look grim. Especially if there are shortages in the UK of both medicines and NHS staff, nurses and doctors. Plus the winter season is approaching.

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The shortage of nursing and other staff isn't helped by new trained coming through either! The contraints placed on hospital budgets mean that even when they desperately need staff they can't afford to hire them! Same in teaching.
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Meanwhile, Boris continues to make promises of more money being spent on almost a daily basis.... More fake news to keep the plebs in awe as a subterfuge to avoid dealing with getting a deal.
Boris and his cronies have no need of a deal, they can afford to fund anything they might need such as healthcare and medication - nothing will change for them.

My head and heart says we must have a deal but a small part of me wants it to not happen and watch the whole thing crash and burn so they can see how we got sold down the river. By that time, Boris will have already gone as his only concern is to get Brexit done without a deal by the end of October.
Money and taxation is his incentive.
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The uplift on minimum wage, by 5% per annum for 5 years, has vast implications for social care. The sector cannot afford to survive at the moment, it now needs almost 5% per year more going forward. There has been no corresponding uplift in funding to the councils.

Liverpool Council pays social care private providers £13 per hour - and asks for 30 minute and even 15 minute visits. That £13 has to cover £8.50 minimum wage, travel, uniforms, training, management, software, mobile phone and costs, assessment and more. I am sure Liverpool has not been promised a more than 5% rise in government allowances per annum....

I heard Javid boast that it was so cheap to borrow money just now, they’d be daft not to...... from an ex City banker - I wonder if he tells his kids that?
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Nissan would drop UK Qashqai production in no-deal Brexit – reports
Move would risk future of Sunderland plant, which employs 7,000 people
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Nissan Qashqai production line in Sunderland
Nissan promised in 2016 to build the new version of the Qashqai in Sunderland. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Nissan could tear up plans to build its Qashqai model in Sunderland if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal, according to reports, putting a plant employing 7,000 people at risk of closure.

The Japanese carmaker promised in 2016 to build the new version of the SUV in Sunderland, after receiving assurances from Theresa May’s government that it would be protected from the impact of Brexit.
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Britain paid just £150m a week to Europe – lower than the £350m cited by pro-Brexit campaigners in 2016

Analysis by the Office of National Statistics shed light on Britain’s contribution to the EU budget.

That’s £7.8bn. A lot of money..... but somewhat less than the £30bn being forecast as the cost per year of a no-deal Brexit, (facts are always useful, I think)

£30bn is still only 1% of our GDP - not much, you might think....

The UK GDP has been affected by about 2% or nearly £60bn since 2016 and it is estimated that no deal with affect GDP to the tune of £105bn - so Brexit will have cost over 21 years worth of contributions to the EU and that’s only short-term costs!
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Really Lloyd, you can't think why ?

Maybe because we're sick of your snide, insulting remarks, which have nothing to do with Brexit at all.
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Firefly wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:26 pm Really Lloyd, you can't think why ?

Maybe because we're sick of your snide, insulting remarks, which have nothing to do with Brexit at all.
Jackie stop biting :D
I have been hoping no one would respond to his constant baiting and leave the three of them smugly congratulating each other in an otherwise empty room/post :lol:
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June wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:56 pm
Firefly wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:26 pm Really Lloyd, you can't think why ?

Maybe because we're sick of your snide, insulting remarks, which have nothing to do with Brexit at all.
Jackie stop biting :D
I have been hoping no one would respond to his constant baiting and leave the three of them smugly congratulating each other in an otherwise empty room/post :lol:
The best post I’ve read in ages!🤣
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Did anyone receive a letter from the NHS to say that S1 health cover will cease on the 1st November in the case of a no deal Brexit. This will leave many who live here in a very difficult position.
My Dentist was telling me she has patients who are on dialysis and at their wits end as to what's going to happen to them. God help them.

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Yes we received the bog standard letter from the Business Services Authority yesterday.
In regard to S1 scheme it does say the UKs participation will continue until at least 31 October it goes onto say the UK would like to continue this arrangement after leaving the EU etc etc and this depends on the UK making an arrangement with Cyprus or with the EU.
And a bit about Pensions as well.
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Im not panicking but alot of people are, my wife has Cypriot nationality and her GESY covers me I believe.
People on Dialysis or being treated for life threatening illnesses can't really afford to wait around until some kind of agreement is reached. The whole situation is a mess.

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June

Point taken :lol:
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June wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:56 pm
Firefly wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:26 pm Really Lloyd, you can't think why ?

Maybe because we're sick of your snide, insulting remarks, which have nothing to do with Brexit at all.
Jackie stop biting :D
I have been hoping no one would respond to his constant baiting and leave the three of them smugly congratulating each other in an otherwise empty room/post :lol:
Well June
The only empty thing in the room is the empty arguments that Brexiteers have put forward for the last three years. You may not like ours or Lloyds points of view but they have substance unlike most Brexiteers who spend their time parsing sentences because they have no other defence for their point of view.

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