The National Health Service in England has produced a set of proposals for boosting the use of biosimilar medicines in order to generate savings of £200-300m on the drugs bill each year by 2020/21. To help reach this objective, the NHS wants at least 90% of new patients to be prescribed the “best value” biological drug within three months of a biosimilar version being launched.
NHS England said that with biological medicines currently representing the largest cost growth area in the NHS medicines budget, the aim was to “drive a step change in the uptake of biosimilar medicines by clinical commissioning groups” and to “make sure patients
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