Monday, April 05, 2010

FT.com - UK Medicine incentive scheme threatened

via ft.com

The NHS risks losing millions of pounds after a European legal opinion that calls for a ban on the growing practice of paying doctors to persuade them to prescribe cheaper medicines.

The European Court of Justice is expected to rule next month on a recommendation by Niilo Jääskinen, the advocate general, in favour of British drug companies, which have criticised the “prescribing incentive schemes” increasingly operated across the NHS.

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