a difficult negotiation with suppliers, according to a damning new report.
Health care administrators can save more than £ 50 million a year on acetaminophen,
aspirin, ibuprofen, and by themselves only if they only buy medicines from Asda or
Superdrug.
On the other hand, although the purchasing power of a large bulk of the NHS, which
routinely pay twice or more per pill rather than price, report author Dr Andrew Hill found.
As a result, the taxpayer lost £ 41 million expensive paracetamol, aspirin £ 10 million and
£ 3 million to ibuprofen.
The national health system is currently facing a cash crisis and they were forced to ration
of non-essential operations. The money you can Save buying price of painkillers could pay
for hip replacement surgery 10,000 or knees.
Use the official NHS statistics, Dr. Hill discovers that the services pay 3 p average
tablet of paracetamol 500 mg standard-or 60 p for a packet of 20. Instead, the public can
purchase 1.2 p a pill Asda-or 24 p.
This means that the NHS was overspending by £ 25.4 million in the formulation of a drug.
Yesterday evening, Dr. Hill, a pharmacologist at the University of Liverpool, said: "it
seems ridiculous that someone from the hospital can not go to Asda and buy paracetamol
needs to be.
' If supermarkets can get drugs cheaper, I wondered, why isn't the NHS '?
In his report, commissioned by the World Health Organization, Dr. Hill found that NHS deal
3 p for each tablet 75 mg of aspirin, a type of low doses prescribed to millions of people
to reduce the risk of heart attack or stroke.
The public can purchase 1.5 p at Superdrug, or 30 p per pack.
As a result, the NHS is responsible for expenditure financed by the taxpayer of £ 9.6
million in low-dose aspirin.
Also pay almost six times more likely than the standard dose of 300 mg of aspirin
painkillers, 10.5 p a pill, compared with best price of 1.8 p Street, again at Asda.
However, as these are rarely prescribed, tablet exceeded the public is much lower, at £ 110,000.
Speaking to the mail on Sunday, said: ' not the draconian rationing of hip replacement and
knee, the NHS can do thousands of them if they just drove treated more harshly in these
pills. '
The Department of Health said: ' we provide a framework to enable the hospital to get the
best price for a drug, but it is up to individual Trusts to negotiate a price '.
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