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Government sends mixed message to global life science investors
5 December 2023 - The Government has published new terms for the Statutory Scheme for branded medicines, maintaining sales rebates ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2023
Life sciences leaders unite to condemn radical plans to rewrite medicines scheme
9 October 2023 - Over twenty industry leaders from companies supplying the NHS with essential medicines warn that radical plans to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jul 2023
New Government consultation on medicine clawbacks will harm investment, says ABPI
19 July 2023 - In a move that will further damage UK life sciences investment, the Government has launched a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2023
Negotiations begin for a new medicine pricing scheme
4 May 2023 - Negotiations for a new voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing to open between the government, NHS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2023
Regulatory, health technology assessment and company interactions: the current landscape and future ecosystem for drug development, review and reimbursement
11 April 2023 - The aims of this study were to review the current interactions within and across regulatory and HTA ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
ABPI response to Government Statutory Scheme rise
2 March 2023 - The Government has confirmed plans to raise the revenue clawback rate paid by pharmaceutical firms subject ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2023
The EU butts heads with big pharma to make medicines cheaper
2 February 2023 - The bloc’s pharma reform aims to get new drugs to patients faster, for less money. But it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2023
UK's voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing and access (VPAS) faces a potential crisis
19 January 2023 - The UK has a “voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing, and access” or VPAS, which sets a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2023
AbbVie and Eli Lilly, two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, have sent a warning signal to the UK government by leaving the voluntary medicines pricing agreement in protest over increasingly punitive revenue clawbacks
16 January 2023 - AbbVie and Lilly have left the UK’s Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2022
Bayer’s Nubeqa receives MHRA approval to treat metastatic prostate cancer
28 November 2022 - The treatment will be made available immediately through an early access deal with NHS England. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Nov 2022
A tussle over medicines pricing is looming in Britain
15 November 2022 - Agreement to limit the size of the NHS drugs bill under strain. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2022
Mental health funding of £1.8 million welcomed by NICE and MHRA to explore regulation of digital mental health tools
10 October 2022 - NICE and the MHRA have been awarded £1.8 million funding by Wellcome over three years to explore ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jul 2022
European Union regulation of health technology assessment: what is required for it to succeed?
22 July 2022 - After considerable discussion and debate, the European Commission proposal for the regulation of health technology assessment was ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2022
Update to the statutory scheme to control the costs of branded health service medicines
15 March 2022 - The UK Government is seeking views on its proposal to increase the rate of payments made ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Feb 2022
Britain fines firms $47 million over price surge for NHS nausea pill
3 February 2022 - Britain's competition watchdog on Thursday fined five firms a total of 35 million pounds ($47.5 million) ...