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<p>A Serious Shortage Protocol is an additional tool to manage and mitigate medication
shortages and may be used in the exceptional and rare situation when other measures
have been exhausted or are likely to be ineffective.</p><p> </p><p>As the explanatory
memorandum of the amending Statutory Instrument acknowledges, Protocols for therapeutic
or generic equivalents will not be suitable for all medicines and patients. For example,
those types of protocols would not be suitable for treatments for epilepsy or treatments
requiring biological products where the medicines that are prescribed need to be prescribed
by brand for clinical reasons. In these cases, patients would always be referred back
to the prescriber for any decision about their treatment before any therapeutic or
generic alternative is supplied.</p>
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