NHS pays pharmaceutical companies millions for drugs developed with taxpayers’ money

NHS pays pharmaceutical companies millions for drugs developed with taxpayers’ money

This article was taken from: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-pharmaceutical-companies-drugs-developed-taxpayer-money-global-justice-now-stop-aids-johnson-a8011716.html By: May Bulman Social Affairs Correspondent  Treatments for cancer, arthritis and MS among drugs that cost cash-strapped NHS more than £1bn last year, in what has been branded a ‘rip-off’ of British public The NHS is spending millions of pounds on medicines that were discovered with taxpayer-funded research, in what has been branded a “rip-off” by…