Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2017
Law finally passed to ban medicine price hiking by greedy drug firms
3 May 2017 - New legislation which is set to ban greedy drugs firms from extracting hundreds of millions of pounds from the cash strapped NHS has been enshrined in law, thanks to a leading Barrow pharmacist.
In 2015, Ben Merriman uncovered a scandal that allowed drug companies to hyper-inflate the cost of debranded medicines by thousands of per cent.
He stepped forward to raise the alarm about the despicable practice, which is thought to have stripped at least £2.6m from Cumbria's health budget in the last two years.
