Pfizer criticises kind policies and the budget freeze,saying the sick are suffering. But are wonder drugs always the answer?It’s not a great day to capture the heat off Jeremy Hunt, just as he’s trying to force the endgame in his dispute with the not-so-junior doctors. As with most industrial disputes neither side has a monopoly of virtue, or so let’s skip to another corner of the galactic health empire over which Emperor Jeremy and his Darth Vader,Simon Stevens, rule. What, or on planet Earth,is Pfizer up to?
You may enjoy read the US pharmaceutical firms complaints approximately NHS England’s drugs policy – wed be better off getting cancer in Scotland or even Greece, says its UK boss – in Thursday’s Telegraph or on Radio 4’s nowadays. But it was all in the Guardian final week, and part of the paper’s epic This is the NHS series.
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Source: theguardian.com