Good news -Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill

[amasufindme]

Good morning - looking at the news it seems that the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Billl is now set to pass before parliament is dissolved on the 3rd May - Good news ! !

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-...

[diogenes Remembering]

And not before time! What amazes me is the bureaucracy and red tape that has to be gone through at a huge cost and with such long delays before anything can happen in this country. All the business of horrendous drug costs have come about because private businesses on the lookout for huge easy profits found a "loophole" in the licencing laws and leaped in quickly. But I would have thought that, seeing what the loophole actually is, any competent groups of civil servants and lawyers would have noticed this socalled obvious "loophole" and dealt with it well before making any changes that might bring it into being. The term "loophole" is merely a nice management-speak obscuration of what really is a downright failure of the licensing/procurement authorities to develop a proper watertight system. From what I hear from workers in the NHS this is par for the course wherever you look.

[poppppy in reply to diogenes]

diogenes, think loophole is short hand for 'how can we line our fat cat mates pockets with public money and then plead ignorance "

Poppy

[MajorTom]

That's great news and a first step in securing affordable medicines across the board. Even if existing prices are driven down, it will be an uphill battle for liothyronine users getting CCGs and Medicines Management Groups to climb down from their blacklist position. But it will be a useful adjunct to the revised BTA guidance in pressuring for change. I am hopeful that meanwhile it may make an affordable T3 available from regulated suppliers in the UK .... eventually.

(I never understood why the NHS doesn't have an in house pharmaceutricals branch for producing it's own simple generics)

[nightingale-56 in reply to MajorTom]

We used to have British Pharmaceuticals and I think it was what Pharmacists used to make up at Chemists themselves. I remember them making up bottles of antibiotics while you waited. I also used to have to go to Pharmacist to have my premature son's vitamins mixed specially on prescription from Paediatrician at hospital. This was in 1976.

[MajorTom in reply to nightingale-56]

Sad that we had something so useful in place but sold out to private profit making companies

[poppppy]

Amasu

Think the link is saying which bills will still go through before 3 Rd and think t the cuts bill is going to go ahead. It says it will "pass". Which reading the rest seems to be political speak for go ahead.

Please may I not be correct. Im not usually lol

Poppy