Pressure to reduce costs is squeezing wholesalers from two directions

摘要

Full-line pharmaceutical wholesalers are innocent victims,caught in the crossfire between Government and manufacturers as they seek to minimise cost and maximise profit,according to British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers chairman,David Coles.He said that recent changes had been thick and fast - the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme,the generics tariff and on top of those,unilateral actions taken by some individual suppliers.