A call has been made for people to dispose of their unused or expired medicines safely … and to check whether they need additional supplies. Every month, 2.5 million prescriptions are issued to residents of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West, worth £22 million. Three quarters of these are for repeat prescriptions and the NHS integrated care board (ICB) for the region estimates that a tenth of these are not required as the patient has sufficient supplies. In a bid to cut back on stockpiling and seeing supplies expire, the ICB wants people to check before reordering. And if people h…