Report shows NHS budget unable to keep up with medicines spending Estimated NHS spending on medicines has grown from £13bn in 2010/2011 to £17.4bn in 2016/2017, an average growth of around 5% annually, a report from The King’s Fund has revealed.…
Government trialling new method of setting price concessions The government has begun trialling a new approach to setting price concessions following sharp spikes in the prices of some generic drugs.…
Pertuzumab gets NICE approval in advanced breast cancer New drug approved for routine use in the NHS in England for women with HER2-positive metastatic or recurrent inoperable breast cancer…
Government grants further drug concessions for January 2018 The Department of Health and Social Care has granted price concessions for 16 more drugs for January 2018…
PSNC sets out key principles to enable fairer price concession system The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has set out five key principles to enable a fairer system for setting price concessions.…
Health bodies warn of Brexit risk to drug supplies The body representing much of the UK healthcare and medical establishment has warned that supplies of medicines to patients could be disrupted when the UK leaves the EU.…
December concession prices agreed on time Drug price concessions for generic medicines dispensed in December have been published on time, averting a repeat of the cash flow crisis which occurred in November.…
Final November concessionary prices issued, but some not agreed The government has issued its final list of concessionary drug prices for November 2017, which has been published in time to be considered alongside November’s payment in the usual way.…
Drug price manipulations destabilise pharmacy Emerging reports that some smaller pharmaceutical wholesalers and independent pharmacist wholesalers could be manipulating the markets to cause unprecedented drug price rises are deeply concerning.…
Almost 70 concessionary drug prices still to be agreed for November The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has responded to the Department of Health’s proposed price concessions that are threatening the cashflow of thousands of community pharmacies.…
