When I started this petition I hoped that the links to various other issues and petitions would be made. Two scenarios spring to mind. The first one is at home. Imagine you are a parent of a child who has been diagnosed with a life limiting and rare disease.  Medication is available to at least improve the quality and length of this child's life but is very expensive. You are not in a position to purchase the drugs privately, and your local NHS Trust does not have the budget to fund this medication. At the same time thousands of pounds of unused, prescribed medication, which are in date, have been stored appropriately and are unopened and intact, are being quite casually destroyed. If there was some way of reusing this medication perhaps funding for the drugs your loved one needed could be available on the NHS. The second scenario is global. Again imagine you are a parent (or indeed a relative of a loved one) in a less prosperous country, with a sick child. You have no medical facilities close by so you walk miles in the heat, carrying the patient, and reach the nearest clinic. After waiting for hours in a queue of other desperate people you see a medical practitioner and are given a diagnosis and a prescription for appropriate medication. You manage to raise funds to purchase this medication but the pharmacy does not have any because your country's health system does not have the funds to purchase sufficient stock. Meanwhile it is quite possible that the medicine you need to source is being destroyed in the UK, instead of being checked and donated to to aid agencies in your area. In either situation, home or abroad, the anguish is the same. There must be some way to eliminate or at reduce these scenarios and, if this petition receives sufficient support, we can at the very least, ask for a review of the current situation and an explanation for the reasons for this waste. What is the point in developing wonder drugs if they are not accessible to everyone who needs them?