IDK about the UK, but in Czechia, we had a shortage of, among others, antibiotics, only very recently alleviated. At the worst times, you could phone to thirty

IDK about the UK, but in Czechia, we had a shortage of, among others, antibiotics, only very recently alleviated. At the worst times, you could phone to thirty pharmacies with a relatively standard recipe (Augmentin etc.) and be turned away everywhere. Been there, done that.