[Margaret Pilkington]

The point is Less, they would have been taking these medications at home.

Most people are quite sensible about the storage of their medicines too.....
I did say most but not all....some patients have bottles of mixed medications.....where they have popped all the pills out of their blister packs and put them all in one bottle......how on earth some of them didn't kill themselves was beyond me.
We would take these from the patient, then make sure they knew how dangerous it was to mix the medicines in one container.
The hospital invariably dispense exactly the same medications to be given during the stay.
But yes, you are right....that was the reason a pharmacist gave me when I asked.

It just seems to me to be an unnecessary expense...especially now the pills are blister packed, well labelled and boxed.
I can't imagine many of the pills have been stored in excess of 25 degrees C.