Bayer v NHS Darlington Appeal
Darlington Memorial Hospital Steven Fruitsmaak / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justice Underhill and Floyd and Lady Justice Rose) Bayer Plc and Another v NHS Darlington Clinical Commissioning Group and others [2020] EWCA Civ 449 (25 March 2020) This was an appeal by Bayer Plc and Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Limited against Mrs Justice Whipple's judgment in Bayer Plc v NHS Darlington Clinical Commissioning Groups and others : [2019] PTSR 922, [2018] WLR(D) 589, [2018] EWHC 2465 (Admin) which I blogged in Bayer Plc v NHS Darlington CCG and Others 2 Oct 2018. In her judgment, Mrs Justice Whipple dismissed applications for judicial review by Bayer and Novartis of a decision by NHS Darlington and other Clinical Commissioning Groups in Northeast England that the NHS Trusts from which they commission services should use a drug called Avastin as the preferred treatment option f...