Business In Medicines

For people who cannot afford the product, government should negotiate and buy the drugs from companies at a low cost. If agriculture, fuel and kerosene can enjoy subsidies, surely medicines should too.The leaflet aims to empower service users and carers to ask relevant questions about medication and have their views taken into account, and to help health and social care practitioners improve their person-centred approach in the area of medicines management.

Medicine prices are beginning to see the benefits of Budget 2008 proposals, but no such luck for consumer products such as breakfast cereals or pre-mixed tea, for instance.The RPM is a 38-year law that has given manufacturers of over-the-counter medicines the right to set the minimum price at which drugs are sold.

The May edition of Fortune magazine featured a special article entitled ‘Innovators at the gate’. This focused on the work of 24 individuals who are doing their best to create new industries against all the odds. Sunil Shaunak is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College and Hammersmith Hospital.