New deal cuts NHS drug prices by 7%
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A deal between the government and the pharmaceutical industry to cut branded drug prices by an overall 7% will save the NHS in Scotland Â£49m a year, the Scottish Executive said yesterday.
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Eleven major drug manufacturers unveiled a new discount card yesterday that could help millions of uninsured Americans save money on prescription drugs.
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The NHS looks like it has underspent by nearly Â£500m last year after making cuts amid pressure to avoid a deficit, early data shows.
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BMJ study suggests anti-cholesterol drugs are massively and needlessly over-prescribed, inflating the Â£2bn annual bill to the NHS.
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PATIENTS would pay less for prescription medicine in a surprise move by Labor leader Mark Latham. Labor is also proposing to double the maternity immunisation allowance to $427 as an extra incentive for parents to vaccinate their children.
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BRITAINâS biotech industry yesterday attacked government plans to cut the price of medicines by 7 per cent next year. The Bioindustry Association said talks between the Government and âBig
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Ten pharmaceutical companies said on Tuesday that they were joining a program to cut the prices of prescription drugs for the uninsured.
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Swiss pharmaceuticals group Novartis   has concluded a $500 million, 7-year global  infrastructure contract with British telecoms group BT ,  a Novartis spokesman said on Sunday.
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A &quot;landmark agreement&quot; with Microsoft to renew the NHS&#39; license for desktop software would save an estimated $608 million.
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Ten pharmaceutical companies said they were joining a program to cut the prices of prescription drugs for the uninsured.
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British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it would cut jobs and costs as it blamed a fall in third-quarter profits on sliding sales of controversial diabetes drug Avandia.
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Annual inflation in drug costs is at the lowest rate in three decades as generic versions of some of the most common drugs have recently come on the market.
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Japan will order drug prices to be cut by an average 5.2 percent in its latest review, a government source said on Tuesday, along with more steps to promote generic medicines in a double blow for branded makers.
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GlaxoSmithKline said it would cut jobs as part of a cost-savings plan after a sharp drop in sales of its diabetes drug and generic competition led to a 5.8 percent drop in profits.
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Private health insurers are being invited to take over the purchasing of care for NHS patients, putting in place one of the final pieces of the government's drive to shift to a fully mixed economy of NHS care.
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Drug prices are a growing problem, and firms trying to set uniform prices face serious difficulties because of the disparities in how much countries can afford to spend, the head of Britain's health watchdog said on Monday.
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Thousands of intensive care patients are set to benefit from a drug which has been recommended to NHS doctors.