Monday 23 October 2017

Public forced to 'pay twice over' for high cost drugs, campaigners say

Public forced to 'pay twice over' for high cost drugs, campaigners say Pharmaceutical companies are “ripping off” the public by charging taxpayers twice over and pricing too many drugs out of reach of the NHS, a campaign group claims.

A report by Global Justice Now says the NHS is spending £1bn a year on medicines made by companies which were awarded significant sums of public money.

In other cases, companies which benefitted from major research funds have priced drugs so high that the NHS cannot afford them, the report claims. The Daily Telegraph

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