Dumfries & Galloway Health Board
Prescribing Support Team

Waste Medicines

Posted: 4 Aug 09 Edited: 8 Aug 18
Patient Information Leaflets Miscellaneous


The Dumfries and Galloway NHS Dispose of your Unused Medicines Properly (DUMP) campaign in 2007 encouraged everyone to take back unwanted or unused medicines to their chemist for safe disposal. The DUMP campaign revealed £750,000 of prescription medicines are wasted every year across Dumfries and Galloway. To find out what this could have bought and how to help reduce medicines waste read this leaflet.