UK Independent: 'The NHS is underprepared for a no-deal Brexit – and I am one of the thousands that might die as a result', 2019

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The NHS is underprepared for a no-deal Brexit – and I am one of the thousands that might die as a result
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Thousands of epilepsy sufferers like myself might have to go without medicine. No deal could be deadly.

On Wednesday night, BBC Newsnight revealed some life-saving drugs have proved impossible to stockpile – including those used to treat epilepsy – and that the doctors who had been given this information had been told to keep quiet.

Back in January the health secretary Matthew Hancock told parliament that the requisite medicine supplies had been stockpiled in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Last night we learned that was not the case. Currently, a no deal would mean potential shortages of three important drugs for epilepsy, bipolar disorder and neuropathic pain. This would be life threatening for patients.
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Note that this is from April, however I doubt that the situation has been addressed.

My MP is a cancer surgeon and has been highlighting the issue of supply with radio isotopes for the past 2 years,( which cannot be stockpiled due to the half life ).
She was assured by the government earluer this year that supply parameters had been resolved, but no detail.
It turns out, as of last week, that it hasn't .
 
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I use a non-standard thyroid medication which is Liothyronine/T3 (due to underactive thyroid diagnosed pre-CFS), and which up until now I have been incredibly lucky to get on the NHS and have been T3 only for 7 years. The CCGs in some areas have made T3 completely unobtainable, so I can only see Brexit worsening this situation, as any excuse and all that........

It is difficult to know sometimes whether I have ME/CFS or whether I have a badly operating thyroid system as so many symptoms overlap with underactive. I have improved a lot of my symptoms over the years by my own investigations and experimenting with things, but I am left with a lot of fatigue and very limited stamina as i always hit a wall on these and I tend to push myself more than my body can deal with. I am of course worried that if T3 is hard to come by (and to worsen the situation, I don't respond well to one of the 3 T3 makes in the UK so the GP names the one I need for me). I am I admit stockpiling to some extent for fear reasons and have 3 months worth or so, and am ordering in from abroad now to protect myself in case of shortages. Without the thyroid meds I am used to, I fear I will go backwards very badly.
 
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