BREAKING: Big pharma has made £12 billion of 'excess profits' from selling just 10 drugs to the #NHS over the last decade, our research with @STOPAIDS and @JustTreatment reveals. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 1/ Tweet added by Global Justice Now @GlobalJusticeUK

Global Justice Now

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BREAKING: Big pharma has made £12 billion of 'excess profits' from selling just 10 drugs to the #NHS over the last decade, our research with @STOPAIDS and @JustTreatment reveals. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 1/

Big drug firms accused of 'ripping off' NHS with £12bn excess profits

NHS England has spent £13bn on the most expensive treatments in the past 10 years with drug companies making up to £12.6bn through 'extreme profiteering', health campaigners say

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2/ Drugs used to treat cancers, arthritis and for blood clot prevention are being sold to the NHS with mark-ups of up to 23,000% on the estimated cost of production, even as patients and staff suffer under record pressures. Read the report 👇

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@GlobalJusticeUK

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3/ Despite the inflated costs of these vital medicines, big pharma is currently demanding an outrageous £2.5 billion HIKE to the NHS drugs bill, which is already climbing year on year. Tell the government to stand up to this greedy industry now -->

They’re rinsing the NHS – take action!

Riding high on the record profits they made during the Covid-19 pandemic, big pharma are hard at work lobbying the UK government to allow them to profiteer even more off the NHS. Pharmaceutical

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VincentPsych

@VincentPsychSA

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@GlobalJusticeUK @SeagerMJ @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment People talk about Big Pharma as if aliens own those companies. Look at your investment profile, many own shares in “Biomedical” stocks and love it when share values grows!

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Patricia Brown

@TriciaEBrown

11 months

@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment This is obscene. Big Pharma: Big Bullies taking because they can.

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James S. Góral 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 🔻 #NAFO Азов Brigade Fan

@James_S_Goral

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment There are costs in developing new drugs that aren't just manufacturing costs. Generally the NHS gets drugs at a cheaper than standard price. That's not to say these 10 specific cases don't need to be revaluated in light of the rampant corruption of this government

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Nick Price-Thompson

@Nick_P_T

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Does that include research costs, genuine Q

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RememberMarat

@RememberMarat

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Liothyronine Hydrocortisone And don’t anyone DARE claim R&D costs. These are some of the oldest medicines still in use.

Hydrocortisone tablets: alleged excessive and unfair pricing, anti-competitive agreements and...

The CMA investigated alleged excessive and unfair pricing, anti-competitive agreements and abusive conduct with respect to hydrocortisone tablets under Chapters I and II CA98 and Articles 101 and 102...

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Robert Munday

@mun_rob

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Yes

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Paul Dunn

@DunnHaly

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment We don’t need this madness

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Margo Ward

@MargoWa21483274

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment 😡😡😡

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PhilMKnn #CeasefireGazaNow #SaveTheNHS 🕊️☮️

@philmckinnon2

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Big Pharma making it up as they continue making vast profits and making peoples lives a misery by making it difficult for the NHS. Vulture capitalism.

Costs of expensive new drugs threaten financial sustainability of NHS

New figures show that the total cost of prescription medicines to the NHS in England reached a new high of £17.2 billion in the financial year 2021 –2022, according to a new independent report.

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Freddie pyne

@freddie61frog

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Sign the petition to stop these thieves ripping off our NHS

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Valerie King

@leftnotback

11 months

@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment How do we sign the petition?

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poppiesmum

@CamMargue

11 months

@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment Was the primary purpose of the nhs in the first place to fund the pharmaceuticals via easy money (under the guise of serving the public), and the public always seen as simply cattle to be milked for profit when they passed the doors of the nhs?

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ellie 💙🌈

@fiftieswoman1

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis #ToriesOut372

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Linda Bache

@linda_bache

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@GlobalJusticeUK @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment This has got to be stopped - just another way the Tories are allowing the NHS to be fleeced!

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His Royal Huwness🐟Aitch NOT haitch🦂

@JohnHuwEvans2

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@GlobalJusticeUK @jewel_thin @STOPAIDS @JustTreatment THis is why we need some pharmaceutical capability in the public sector. If we can make the out of license drugs ourselves we will be less reliant on the gougers. On that topic is Lucentis any more effective for treating WMD than the original drug in its original formulation?

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