Campaigners threaten legal action over UK-US deal on prices NHS pays for drugs
Key takeaways
- Ministers said the deal with Donald Trump will mean more NHS patients get access to innovative medicines.
- Prefer the Guardian on GoogleCampaigners against the UK’s controversial drug pricing deal with Donald Trump are threatening the government with legal action unless it scraps a key element of the plan.
- They claim that a change to how drug treatments are approved for use by the NHS, which could lead to it paying even higher prices for them, amounts to an “unlawful power grab”.
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Ministers said the deal with Donald Trump will mean more NHS patients get access to innovative medicines. Photograph: Andrew Walters/Alamy View image in fullscreen Ministers said the deal with Donald Trump will mean more NHS patients get access to innovative medicines. Photograph: Andrew Walters/Alamy National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Campaigners threaten legal action over UK-US deal on prices NHS pays for drugs Two campaign groups claim that change to how NHS treatments are approved amounts to ‘unlawful power grab’
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleCampaigners against the UK’s controversial drug pricing deal with Donald Trump are threatening the government with legal action unless it scraps a key element of the plan.
They claim that a change to how drug treatments are approved for use by the NHS, which could lead to it paying even higher prices for them, amounts to an “unlawful power grab”.