NHS: Drugs
(asked on 8th June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the most expensive drugs bought from pharmaceutical companies by the NHS were in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Based on National Health Service list prices at launch notified to the Department between 2009 and 2015 under the rules of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme and statutory regulations, the 10 most expensive medicines in terms of list price per pack are shown in the table.
In considering the impact of a medicine, it is important to take into account both the product’s total net costs and the net health benefits it generates.
Product | Manufacturer |
Strensiq (asfotase alfa) 80mg injection | Alexion |
Translarna (ataluren) granules for oral suspension | PTC Therapeutics Ltd |
Sirturo (bedaquiline fumarate) tablets | Janssen-Cilag Ltd |
Lojuxta (lomitapide) capsules | Aegerion Pharmaceuticals |
Provenge (sipuleucel-T) dispersion for infusion | Dendreon Coporation |
ChondroCelect (characterised viable autologous cartilage cells expanded exvivo) implantation suspension | Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (SOBI) |
Yervoy (ipilimumab) vials | Bristol-Myers Squibb UK |
Revestive (teduglutide) injection | NPS Pharma International |
Kalydeco (ivacaftor) tablets | Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
Kalydeco (ivacaftor) oral granules | Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
Source: Department of Health