Big drug firms accused of 'ripping off' NHS with £12bn excess profits

Big drug firms accused of 'ripping off' NHS with £12bn excess profits Some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms have been accused of “ripping off” the NHS by making billions of pounds in profit on just a handful of cancer and other drugs.

NHS England has spent £13bn on the treatments in the past 10 years, with the drugs companies making up to £12.6bn through “extreme profiteering”, according to research by Global Justice Now, STOPAIDS, and Just Treatment. iNews