CONSULTATION RESPONSES

Summary of responses to the Department of Health's consultation on a statutory scheme to control the prices of branded NHS medicines (23rd December 2008)
On 18 June 2008, the Government published the 'Consultation on a statutory scheme to control the prices of branded NHS medicines'. The consultation was in two stages: a consultation on the introduction of statutory controls on the prices of branded medicines, including a temporary price freeze (this part of the consultation ended on 15 July 2008), and a consultation on the introduction of a price cut that would be implemented in January 2009 (this part of the consultation ended on 25 September 2008). This document sets out the summary of responses to the consultation.
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