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| Author: | themsforum.org [ Mon, 15 Jul 2013, 9:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Big Pharma robbery of the NHS continues unabated |
"The controversial practice involves big-pharma firms selling on medicines commonly used by the NHS to businesses acting outside the Government’s price-regulation scheme. The purchasing firms are then free to mark up the prices they charge the NHS. In one of the worst cases, the cost of an epilepsy drug prescribed to thousands of patients by the health service was increased by 24 times the original price. Meanwhile, testosterone patches given to both men and women suffering from hormone imbalances jumped from £26 per 300g to a £395 after being sold on. And the price of a medication used to treat mental-health problems such as anxiety and schizophrenia rocketed from around £4 per five millilitres to £23 – a mark-up of 607 per cent" Please read the rest of the article: NHS hit for millions by overcharging ‘scam’ Will the government act to recover these funds? Will it prosecute big pharma? Will it impose billions of dollars in fines like in the USA? Let us wait and see. |
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