I wonder whether the hon. Lady remembers the time we spent in the House last November debating the Off-patent Drugs Bill. I flagged up the concern that a doctor prescribing a drug with a licence for a use takes precedence over an off-patent drug that may actually be the same. With the sort of gaming we have seen, there is a real concern that drug companies will tweak a drug in the slightest manner and then start selling it to the NHS at hundreds and thousands of pounds, when in actual fact an off-patent drug would do the same job. That has still not been dealt with.
Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Philippa Whitford
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 October 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill.
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