Cheaper generics save UK's NHS GBP400M a year, study confirms

In 2007 the UK's National Audit Office reported that Primary Care Trusts could save more than GBP200.0 million ($305.8 million) a year without  compromising patient care if general practitioners prescribed cheaper,  generic drugs. Keele University has now confirmed the NAO's finding by  calculating that almost GBP400.0 million has been saved by the Department  of Health, the National Health Service and PCTs in England, through more  cost-effective prescribing as recommended in the NAO report.