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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Drug rebate rate cut by over a third after zero-tariff deal with US

Rebates paid by drugs firms to the NHS are being cut by more than a third next year following the recent tariff deal with the US.

The Government said the rebate costs for companies – the proportion of revenues from new branded medicine sales that drugs firms must pay back into the NHS – would fall to 14.5% in 2026 from 22.9% this year.

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