Page 2 of A real positive for the NHS

Quote:
Si Wooldridge says...
"Does he not realise how squeezed traders like farmers are due to this strategy, despite the massive profits?"
Yes, he did add that rider even before he made his point. Which was that an organisation as big as the NHS should be capable of getting much better deals from suppliers than they currently do.


Snaps

---

My new Flash Fiction blog. All my own work
500ish

---

I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

This item was edited on Sunday, 19th April 2015, 03:14

Quote:
Snaps says...
"Yes, he did add that rider even before he made his point. Which was that an organisation as big as the NHS should be capable of getting much better deals from suppliers than they currently do."
That's good then.  I think your problem is that the public sector either don't have good procurement teams or that the issue of getting value for money is not as strong in that area as it should be.


---------

Si Wooldridge
Reviewer

http://synth.myreviewer.com

Quote:
Si Wooldridge says...
"I think your problem is that the public sector either don't have good procurement teams or that the issue of getting value for money is not as strong in that area as it should be."
That isn't the problem, it was when Labour threw loads of money at the NHS a while ago and the drug companies just swallowed it up, but NICE fixes much of this issue by issuing guidelines.

The problem is, drug companies are generally profit driven disgustingly rich ruthless arseholes who will wage a PR war campaign for their latest cancer drug that NICE have deemed as too expensive, whilst withholding flu vaccine drug trial evidence and generally not caring about patients at all.

Got a drug that can help some cancer patients? No, let's not sell it to the NHS for a profit, we want to sell it to the NHS for a huge profit! NICE don't want to pay that much for the drug? Let's start getting the media worked up about it and make NICE look like the bad guys for not spending money on things that might help extend people's lives, when really it's us charging stupid money for it.

What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/10/tamiflu-saga-drug-trials-big-pharma

Nice decision on prostate cancer drug is a 'kick in the teeth' for patients
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/15/nice-prostate-cancer-drug-abiraterone

NHS says no to new breast cancer drug Kadcyla
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28688311

Editor
DVD REVIEWER
MYREVIEWER.COM

My Flickr PhotostreamNHS says no to new breast cancer drug Kadcyla

I'm not saying the big pharma aren't a big part of the problem, not in the least.

---------

Si Wooldridge
Reviewer

http://synth.myreviewer.com