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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Julia Kollewe and Eleni Courea

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

A pharmacist
Nice considers a cost of £20,000 to £30,000 for every extra year of good-quality life a drug delivers to a patient to represent good value for the NHS. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25% after weeks of intensive talks with the Donald Trump administration and drugmakers.

Labour has drawn up fresh proposals to end a standoff with the industry over drug pricing, including changing the cost-effectiveness thresholds under which new medications are assessed for use on the NHS, according to industry sources.

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