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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

NHS drug prices set to rise as Starmer to cave on Trump demands

NHS drug prices look set to rise as Sir Keir Starmer is close to bowing to Donald Trump’s demands to pay pharmaceutical companies more money.

It comes as officials briefed the Trump administration on new proposals to adjust how the NHS prices medicines earlier this week, including raising the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) threshold by 25 per cent.

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