April 2021 - Newsletter #1

Prescription Drug Shortages "Have Increased Sharply"

Last month we featured an expert report which warned that drug shortages "aren’t going away".

We continue to see that assessment be validated as the "third wave" of the pandemic spreads. A publication for physicians practicing in the UK, GPonline, just reported that drug "[s]hortages have increased sharply over the past six months" and that doctors "may be forced to re-write prescriptions, switching patients to alternative medications when a first-choice option is not available."

Another consequence of the shortages they cite is that "[p]atients can also be forced to search around multiple pharmacies to locate a supply of the drug they have been prescribed." We’re sending this newsletter today because this is precisely the position we don’t want our customers to be in.

We deal directly with the challenges in procuring pharmaceutical products every single day, including from the UK, a country which is a significant source of medicines for our customers. Supply disruptions there and elsewhere can impact your ability to get these medications in a timely fashion. It can also affect the prices we acquire them at and, in turn, have to pass on to consumers.

NorthWestPharmacy.com is, however, fortunate to have experienced team members who are working tirelessly to source the drugs our customers need and they have been quite successful in this regard since the pandemic-related drug shortages began.

We are doing everything we can to keep our customers ahead of the next round of drug shortages, pharmaceutical export bans, the next lockdowns, flight cancellations and related logistics disruptions, international drug price increases and more. In fact, we have delivered some good news about current delivery times which have in significant part been improved due to our implementation of new logistics streams.

How to Stay Ahead of Drug Shortages

But we need your help to keep you ahead of the many challenges that the pandemic continues to deal to international procurement and delivery logistics. We hope for the best but plan for the worst and never assume the status quo will remain during these fast moving and turbulent times so we ask our customers to do the same.

The best thing you can do to help secure timely delivery of your medications at the current prices is to order well in advance. This gives us and delivery systems more time, if necessary, to get your order to you well before you are going to run out of your supply at home. We encourage customers who may need medications in the coming months to place their orders now.

With more than 375,000 customer reviews, NorthWestPharmacy.com is the most reviewed and independently five-star rated online pharmacy in the world providing lower cost medications from abroad to customers worldwide. Nobody offering safe and affordable pharmaceuticals from abroad can match our supply and delivery capacity during this difficult time so please be assured we continue to successfully deliver orders to customers, just as we have done since the beginning of the pandemic.

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