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A broken system must be fixed in the public interest
The UK drug industry has much to be proud of, but the interests of industry, patients, and a cost effective NHS are not always aligned and may be fundamentally opposed. Almost 20 years ago, the UK parliamentary health select committee’s report on The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry was damning.1 “The regulatory system, the medical profession and government,” concluded the committee, “have all failed to ensure that industry’s activities are more clearly allied to the interests of patients and the NHS.”
Instead of triggering an improvement, the past two decades deliberately delivered less caution and more industry involvement. Industry’s interests are increasingly favoured over evidence based decision making, risking sustainable and safe patient care and making healthcare costs hard to control. The landmark health select committee verdict is banished from memory amid the propaganda of drug innovation, accelerat