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Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill: factsheet and impact assessment

Information on the measures in the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill.

From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published
15 September 2016
Last updated
8 November 2016 — See all updates

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Health service medical supplies (costs) bill factsheet

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Health service medical supplies (costs) bill impact assessment

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The factsheet provides information on the measures in the bill, which amends the National Health Service Act 2006.

The impact assessment covers 2 individual impact assessments:

  • the amendment of powers to enable the government to control the cost of health service medicines
  • powers to enable the government to obtain information on medicines supplied to the health service

The Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill makes amendments to:

  • ensure that the government can require companies to make payments to control the cost of health service medicines
  • enable the government to require companies to reduce the price of an unbranded generic medicine, or to impose other controls on that company’s unbranded medicine, even if the company is in the voluntary scheme (the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme) for their branded medicines
  • enable the government to make regulations to obtain information on sales and purchases of health service medicines, medical supplies and other related products from all parts of the supply chain, from manufacturer to pharmacy, for defined purposes

You can get more details on the Bill and its stages through Parliament on the Parliament website.

Published 15 September 2016
Last updated 8 November 2016 + show all updates

  1. Further details about the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill have been added to the factsheet.

  2. First published.