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The pharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom directly employs around 73,000 people and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development.
This is a list of manufacturers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals with operations in the United Kingdom.. Note: the activities of the parent companies of many of the companies listed below are not restricted solely to the United Kingdom.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is the trade association for over 120 companies in the UK producing prescription medicines for humans, founded in 1891. [1] It is the British equivalent of America's PhRMA ; however, the member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply medicines prescribed for the National ...
The shortage of certain medications “continues to be challenging”, Dr Rick Greville, director of distribution and supply at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), told ...
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has been reprimanded by UK regulators for failing to disclose fees and expenses paid to individuals and organisations in Britain amounting to about 7.8 million pounds ...
GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with headquarters in London. [3] [4] It was established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, [n 1] which was itself a merger of a number of pharmaceutical companies around the Smith, Kline & French firm.
The MHRA is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care for the regulation of medical devices, whilst the costs of medicines regulation is met through fees from the pharmaceutical industry. [6] This has led to suggestions by some MPs that the MHRA is too reliant on industry, and so not fully independent. [7]
BTG Limited is an international specialist healthcare company that is developing and commercialising products targeting critical care, cancer and other disorders. The current name was adopted when the British Technology Group changed its name on 27 May 1998. [2]