> The government was manoeuvred into buying £9 billion pounds of Tamiflu vaccine.
£9bn was about the total prescription medication budget at the time, so I think you've gone wrong somewhere.
£9bn was about the total prescription medication budget at the time, so I think you've gone wrong somewhere.
Some sourcing on the medication budget: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/rising-cost-medici...
> Estimated total NHS spending on medicines in England has grown from £13 billion in 2010/11 to £17.4 billion in 2016/17
A few years earlier in 2006: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/casenotes_20060509.shtml (The transcript used to be available, not sure if it's possible to get to it now, but that gives the £9bn figure).