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Steph Brawn

Labour 'putting Scotland's NHS at risk' with US-UK medicines deal, SNP say

US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed a deal last December (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

LABOUR are putting Scotland's NHS at risk, the SNP have said, after a report warned of 229,000 excess deaths under a US-UK medicines deal.

The NHS in England will have to divert £45 billion from essential services to help pay for new medicines under the terms of the deal agreed between the UK Government and Donald Trump’s US administration last December.

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