NHS trials using drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs

Drones are to be used to courier drugs in a bid to speed up the delivery of vital medicines, the NHS has announced. NHS England said it was hoped that the technology would lead to "Same-day delivery" of orders across the country. If successful, it's believed the trust would be the first in the world to deliver chemotherapy drugs by drone. The drugs will be flown directly from the pharmacy at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust to St Mary's Hospital, where staff will collect them before distributing it to hospital teams and patients. An NHS England spokesman said chemotherapy drugs were difficult to transport as some doses have a short shelf life.

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