Patient drug campaigned for drug – while being funded by the manufacturer

The trust even brought a High Court action against NHS England which had decided to limit the availability of the drug, Sovaldi. A 12-week course of the drug costs £34,983.

But the trust had long-standing financial links to Gilead, and other drug companies also developing new therapies for hepatitis C. In all, it received a total of £334,700 in funding from five pharmaceutical companies in 2016, the BBC has discovered.

Most patient groups get funding from drug companies. In return, they lobby health agencies to get a drug approved, and usually ignore any alternative therapies that may work.

(Source: BBC, March 1, 2017)

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