The Mail on Sunday reports on drug firms who have dramatically increased their prices to the NHS over the last couple of years; not for incredible, leading edge products but for fairly standard long-standing drugs.
“In June 2008, the cost to the NHS of a packet of 10mg pills was £5. Today, the NHS is paying £44.40 for the same course.”
Of course I have no idea whether this issue is ‘real’, but knowing PASA, I find it hard to believe they would have allowed the sort of sort of increases the Mail report. This would seem to be pretty basic contract management / cost control stuff; not even particularly sophisticated negotiation with a monopoly supplier (which is something that the NHS does face in its Pharma procurement).
So has some key capability been lost in the organisational change I wonder? Anyone from DH / ex PASA like to comment?
Yes, I hear you saying, but, given you have already excused yourself from the ’sex’, what about the Rock ‘n Roll? Well, I took my nephew to the Lovebox Festival on Friday for his first taste of Festival madness, and my very brief review goes as follows: Maccabees – great as expected; Bombay Bicycle Club- good but maybe a little laid back; Mystery Jets – brilliant, becoming a very ’serious’ band in the best sense of the word; Chew Lips – a total and very pleasant surprise and one of the most charismatic lead singers I’ve seen in quite a while; Ellie Goulding – probably a sweet girl, good to her parents, would go down well at the local singer-songwriter evening in the pub … but way out of her depth on the main stage.
Will that do?
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You believe the MAIL?
I dont think the facts support the article
http://www.psnc.org.uk/pages/category_m.html
I have no affection of any sort for the Mail and that’s a very interesting link B&T (if I may call yout that) but – and its been a long day – I have to say I didn’t fully understand it! Seriously, any chance you could explain what it means and how that relates to the Mail distorting the facts? I would feature that as a new post – we are only interested in the procurement truth here, there is no ‘political’ angle so would like to correct things if it was not accurate in the first place.
Thanks…
Peter