Liothyronine

[Airmed]

Mercury Pharma handed over 4 million to the NHS without admitting liability circa 2007 and then House of snores, sorry should say Lords dropped case against them. When Mercury Pharma continued there antics to further stuff the NHS to the tune of 260million I think there is a serious problem as well as complicity. I contacted serious fraud office who informed me “out of their remit”. Well what a surprise. How many snouts in the trough I wonder. Passed on to my very favourite journalist Of course.

The actual Motion is:

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to move that this House regrets that the Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018 do not propose any action to be taken in respect of the high cost charged by Concordia and other companies for the drug Liothyronine for the treatment of hypothyroidism thereby depriving patients of the use of that essential drug, and further do not put an end to the practice of a growing number of Clinical Commissioning Groups refusing to follow the latest guidance from NHS England on making that drug available to NHS patients via referral to thyroid specialists (SI 2018/345).

This means that the House regrets what is happening to thyroid patients.

Basically debates are held to scrutinise Government. You can find more info here:

[shaws Administrator]

Thanks for posting Airmed. Very important post and so many of us have been struggling with MP products. I myself took their T3 which I am sure there was something not right about it. I put in a complaint as did several other members. Nothing came out of our complaints.

[Airmed in reply to shaws]

Interestingly Concordia/MP T3 has quite a short shelf life. Have been following there gripes about how difficult it is to manufacture etc. Personally think I could knock this up in my garage very old tech. Morningside come into the market with a product with an 18 month shelf life. Tried to find out through MRHA FOI who was supplying as they are pill pushers, only to be told they were unable to divulge that information. I think Morningside product has to come from one of the big players. Now wouldn’t it be interesting if it were a Pharma company selling in Europe for example for 2 Euros like Sanofi do or perhaps Pfizer doing a deal with Morningside and selling for 300 quid. I asked Sanofi when everything went pear shaped whether they had plans to sell in the U.K. Am going to talk to the monopolies about this too, already sent info to fave journalist. It all stinks!

[shaws Administrator in reply to Airmed]

Most on this forum, when they heard that new two additional T3s would be introduced in the UK were ecstatic and hoped that prices would be a suitable to enable those who need it would get it prescribed.

Disappointment isn't a strong enough word when we found out that the manufacturers/sellers' price was about the same as the exhorbitant M&P.

There should be an investigaton as those of us who cannot recover on anything else need T3 would rather have it prescribed than source their own.

From some past posts it seems the NHS has been bled dry by exorbitant prices for some medications.

theinvisiblehypothyroidism....

[t3rr in reply to shaws]

When I managed to get my last batch of Teva t3, noticed it was manufactured in Hungary!!

[Airmed in reply to t3rr]

When I contacted Morningside I asked where it was manufactured and the person I spoke to said it wasn’t manufactured on site. A member of Regulatory says it is as per pack leaflet. Hmm

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I just checked my new prescription for liothyronine. It is made by Sigma Pharm. The pharmacist had a hard time getting refills and also the price went up since last month. My copay rose 5 USD in one month. From a 14 dollar copay last month to 19 dollars yesterday. This is quite a jump. And the names are similar. Just wondering if SigmaPharm is an offshoot of MercuryPharma for the US market. Couldn't find any satisfactory info online. I SO don't trust healthcare anywhere at this point. Has anyone seen info on a connection here? Does anyone else feel sc%#$@d and not kissed?