NHS: Drugs
Commons · Question 43838 · Tabled 3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost of wholesale medications bought by the National Health Service.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 8 Apr 2025
The Department has well established mechanisms to control the level of spend on medicines. For example, the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access, and growth, the statutory scheme for branded medicines to control their growth in sales, an...