"Innovators" relieved, Generics companies frustrated as government drops generic substitution plans for England
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The new UK coalition government has dropped plans to introduce automatic generic substitution in England because of uncertainty over whether the government's proposals would have provided real benefit to the National Health Service (NHS), says the Department of Health (DoH). Some parts of the pharmaceutical industry appeared to be relieved, but generics producers were frustrated.