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Sophie is a newly registered pharmacist based at Wellington Hospital. She has a keen interest in social innovation and entrepreneurship having co-founded two social enterprises (The Social Change Collective and The Social Experiment) during her intern year in 2017. She believes in the power of young people; she is the chairman of Ignite Consultants and is excited to be joining the pharmacy profession at a time of imminent change.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
