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Drug company executives have been secretly recorded boasting that they are selling regulated prescription drugs that cost ?pennies? for hundreds of pounds because NHS price controls are so weak, The Telegraph discloses today.
One drug company executive said it was a ?hallelujah? moment when the NHS announced in 2011 how much it was prepared to pay for common prescription drugs ? because the price cap was so high.
A Daily Telegraph investigation discloses that high street chemists are being offered all-expenses paid holidays throughout the world by drug companies desperate to profit from the lucrative NHS business.
The price for the drugs are set by the NHS, but patients only have to pay a standard fee of up to ?7.85 with the taxpayer funding the remainder of the cost, which can run into hundreds of pounds per prescription.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...st-of-profits-on-drugs-that-cost-pennies.html
One drug company executive said it was a ?hallelujah? moment when the NHS announced in 2011 how much it was prepared to pay for common prescription drugs ? because the price cap was so high.
A Daily Telegraph investigation discloses that high street chemists are being offered all-expenses paid holidays throughout the world by drug companies desperate to profit from the lucrative NHS business.
The price for the drugs are set by the NHS, but patients only have to pay a standard fee of up to ?7.85 with the taxpayer funding the remainder of the cost, which can run into hundreds of pounds per prescription.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...st-of-profits-on-drugs-that-cost-pennies.html
