NHS plans to stop thyroid pill after price soars by 5,000% The NHS is planning to stop prescribing a life-changing pill after its manufacturer raised the price by more than 5,000 per cent.
Liothyronine, used to treat patients with an underactive thyroid, has soared from 16p per tablet to £9.22 – an increase of 5,662 per cent.
The medicine, a synthetic version of the hormone T3, is relied on by sufferers who do not respond well to the cheaper alternative levothyroxine which is the standard treatment.
Because there is only one supplier of the drug, it means thousands of patients could be forced to travel to Europe to buy liothyronine, where a packet costs just a few euros. The Daily Mail
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