stop the drug companies charging over inflated prices for medication

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Whilst drug companies charge the government over inflated prices for their medications this money could be invested into the NHS to support the exsisting services and provision of community and acute care.

the over charging for the epilepsy medication recently could fund more epilepsy nurses

https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/news/concerns-about-overcharging-epilepsy-drugs-64885

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog, has raised concerns about the behaviour of two pharmaceutical companies. They have criticised Pfizer and Flynn Pharma for charging ‘excessive and unfair’ prices for the epilepsy medicine phenytoin sodium capsules.

Drug companies should not be allowed to cripple the NHS and need to be stopped from breaking our NHS.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

11 Jan 2017	Petition opened for signatures
13 Jan 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Jan 2017

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