Harris warns against stockpiling of medicines ahead of Brexit

Health Minister Simon Harris has urged people not to panic buy drugs in the weeks before Brexit, warning secret stockpiling could cause an "unintended" medicines access crisis that will put vulnerable patients at risk.

Mr Harris insisted the public, hospitals and pharmacists must not "hamper the supply of medicines" despite admitting drugs linked to feeding seriously ill people in hospitals and nursing homes, x-rays and some surgeries are on an unofficial 24-drug "watch list".