About
UK government estimates suggest that over £800 million worth of medicines dispensed in primary care each year are not used by the patient for whom they were intended. When hospital dispensed medication is taken into account this figure would be considerably higher. That is a shocking waste of a valuable and sometimes life-saving resource.
Inter Care – Medical Aid for Africa is a UK registered charity (no. 275637) which collects selected returned patient medicines from GP practices and, after appropriate quality controls, recycles them free of charge to a network of over one hundred health centres in seven desperately poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa.
On this website you can find out more about our work and the health centres we support, download information about the medicines that we can and cannot re-cycle, register a GP practice to start collecting patient returns, and most importantly donate money to help us continue this vital work - saving waste in the UK while saving lives in Africa.
