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Flynn and Pfizer fined £70m for overcharging NHS for epilepsy drugs
Flynn and Pfizer fined £70m for overcharging NHS for epilepsy drugs

PHARMACEUTICAL companies Flynn and Pfizer have been fined nearly £70 million after they overcharged the NHS for a life-saving epilepsy drug, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today.

The body said that the two drug companies had illegally “abused their dominant positions” in the market to charge unfairly high prices over four years.

Costs to the NHS for the phenytoin sodium drug increased from £2m in 2012 to £50m in 2013.

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