NHS paying too much to drug firms
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An OFT probe finds the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs, the BBC learns.
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Business & money: The pharmaceutical industry business model is 'economically unsustainable', according to a report by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Big pharmaceutical companies sometimes calculated to the penny the profits that doctors could make from their cancer drugs and shared those estimates with doctors.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadians are paying hundreds of millions of dollars too much for generic prescription drugs because federal government policies are allowing manufacturers to shut out competitors, a study released Monday concludes.
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A shake-up of strategic health authorities has seen the NHS pay out more than Â£80m in redundancy, the BBC learns.
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NHS underspent by Â£510m last year as result of stringent cuts imposed by health secretary.
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The cost of employing temporary NHS nursing staff has soared to more than AÂ£600 million, according to a new report. Figures released by the Royal College of Nursing showed the cost had trebled within the past six years.
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The Office of Fair Trading says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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Questions about billing, coverage and prices of drugs covered under the new prescription benefit were routinely wrong, the government finds.
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The body assessing new drugs and therapies for the NHS should be rejecting more treatments, say economists.
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Too many doctors write prescriptions while under the influence of drug companies. Aggressive prosecution of the worst cases could help mend doctor-patient trust.
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Plans to allow 24-hour drinking will raise the cost to the NHS of alcohol-fuelled harm, a top medical group says.
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Two-thirds of chronically ill patients failed to tell their doctors they would have to skimp on their medicines because of cost, according to a new study published yesterday.
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Private clinics doing NHS operations have not carried out all the treatment they have been paid for, figures show.
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US hospitals are being solicited by secondary pharmaceutical distributors offering flu vaccine at highly inflated prices, according to a new survey of hospital pharmacy directors.
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MPs, doctors and medical bodies have slammed offers of money to GPs for referring patients with compensation claims.
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Patients who are violent to NHS staff should be made to pay for their treatment, under Lib Dem proposals.