This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition stop the drug companies charging over inflated prices for medication
Whilst drug companies charge the government over inflated prices for their medications this money could be invested into the NHS to support the exsisting services and provision of community and acute care.
the over charging for the epilepsy medication recently could fund more epilepsy nurses
More details
https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/news/concerns-about-overcharging-epilepsy-drugs-64885
The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog, has raised concerns about the behaviour of two pharmaceutical companies. They have criticised Pfizer and Flynn Pharma for charging ‘excessive and unfair’ prices for the epilepsy medicine phenytoin sodium capsules.
Drug companies should not be allowed to cripple the NHS and need to be stopped from breaking our NHS.
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