Research

We have students at universities studying meds and physics and science and all kinds of research matterr, I know that grants are paid by the pharmaceutical companies to enable the research but why don't we turn this around.

 

If our students looked for new cures for cancers then when they were nearly at the full on position, that research is then tendered out to a company who will pay the most, but is a lot less than their research and development costs.  That contract money then covers the university costs and the drugs are made at a price\retail cost that all NHS subscribers could afford as well as the rest of the world.

 

This to me seems fair.  As it stands research and development is met by the pharmaceutical companies so they add at least 200% profit margin onto the drugs, then take the patent, so they need to cream as much as possible in the first 3 to 5 years.  Hence new drugs aren't always available.

 

Come on government, change is required.  It isn't always fancy drugs that save lives, simple research into simple things can be an answer.

 

Pharmaceutical companies want to have costs so they can charge...