Finance and efficiency

NHS hit by seven-fold increase in bill for certain drugs

By 2018-06-08T06:00:00

Generic drugs

Source: Evgeny Rannev

NHS commissioners were hit by a seven-fold increase in the bill for certain generic drugs in 2017-18, after some medicines were subject to massive price hikes.

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