The impact of the national shortage of the painkiller diamorphine.
DIAMORPHINE SHORTAGE If there is one guarantee most of us would expect from our hospitals it is that if we are in great pain that there are drugs on hand to take it away. But that's not what happened to a couple in Nottingham recently. The husband of a woman suffering from terminal throat cancer claims that when they desperately needed the drug diamorphine to ease her pain, there was none available in the City or surrounding area. He says his wife died in agony. Diamorphine is not just a key drug for pain relief for cancer sufferers in this country but increasingly it's the drug of choice for women who have an epidural during childbirth. So what impact is the national shortage having?
Kevin Mousley tells the story.
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