Today we have published an investigation – featured on the front of today’s the i newspaper – that shows big pharma companies have extracted £12bn

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Hi John,
Today we have published an investigation – featured on the front of today’s the i newspaper – that shows big pharma companies have extracted £12 billion in excess profits from the NHS, through sales on just 10 drugs.(1)

Big pharma often responds to accusations of greed by saying that it needs huge profits to fund research and development on new drugs. However, we found that each of these drugs – the 10 most costly to the NHS in the last decade – have received support from the public or charities.

Despite these huge excess profits, big pharma thinks it can squeeze even more money out of the NHS. The industry is RIGHT NOW lobbying the government to add another £2.5 billion to the NHS drugs bill. We can’t stand for this.
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** 23,000% profits
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Our calculations allowed for a reasonable 50% profit margin for pharma companies above the estimated costs of production, which gives you an idea of the scale of big pharma’s profiteering.

Big pharma’s idea of a healthy profit is different, though. We found that one company was charging a mark-up of 23,000% on a key cancer drug despite having contributed extremely little to its development.

This might sound shocking, but it is business as usual for the pharmaceutical industry. Big pharma consistently sends more money to its shareholders than it spends on researching new drugs. The prices it charges for drugs bear no relation to what they actually cost to produce. Globally, the public pays for two-thirds of all upfront drug R&D costs.

This is not a medicines industry: it’s simply a money-making machine. Not content with profits that would already make an oil exec blush, big pharma is trying to water down a drugs pricing deal and suck out even more cash from the NHS.
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Our research, combined with big pharma’s latest demands, shows just how broken the current model of producing medicines is. Unless we fix it, our health system could be at risk. We need to put a stop to this profiteering and take control of medicines, especially as it is so often our money that funds them.(2)

We’re campaigning with doctors, nurses and patients to build a new system, but first, we need to stop big pharma’s latest and most dangerous attempt to raid the NHS and send more money back to its shareholders.
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Thank you for all your support,

Tim Bierley
Pharma campaigner, Global Justice Now

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Notes
1. [INS: Big drug firms accused of ‘ripping off’ NHS with £12bn excess profits ([link removed]) :INS] , the i paper, 12 July 2023
2. [INS: Bitter Pills: Why the NHS can’t swallow big pharma’s profiteering ([link removed]) :INS] , Global Justice Now, Just Treatment and STOP AIDS, 12 July 2023
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