Medicines Waste campaign is a South West Essex initiative designed to raise awareness of the costly issue of unused prescription medicine and highlight the overuse of antibiotics. Healthcare commissioners NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Thurrock CCG have joined forces to reduce the costs of wasted medicines which is estimated to be A 2.5 million a year locallya money that could be better spent on improving services such as 100 extra community nurses.