A report that the York health economics consortium published in 2010 found that unused prescription medicines cost the United Kingdom more than £400 million per annum.The Royal College of Nursing report published in 2011, entitled “Taking the Pulse of NHS Scotland”, identified that“GP prescribing has been noted as a significant cost pressure by all NHS boards”.It estimated that, in 2009,“GP prescribing budgets were overspent by around £22 million.”Researchers found that most medicine wastage is caused by a combination of patients not taking their drugs as prescribed, or by illness progression leading to changes in patient treatment regimes.My recent visit...