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A no-deal Brexit could disrupt medicines supplies to the UK for at least six months because of delays as they are shipped across the channel, instead of the previously estimated six weeks, a government minister has warned.
Representatives of the pharma industry and drug distributors have told an influential committee of MPs that patients should consider stockpiling their own drugs if a “no deal” Brexit scenario looks likely.