Petition Show the "other pathway" to save the NHS the money out of patent drugs could.

Alistair Burt filibustered a bill to allow the NHS to use out of patent drugs, which it was estimated could save £2 billion per year. The reason given for this was that there were "other pathways" available to save this money. Yet nothing has been shown by the government to back this up.

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Reference: - The Independent online newspaper article by Jon Stone, November 6th 2015

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Date closed 17 June 2016
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