• GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukM
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    2 months ago

    In that case, the NHS (assuming they don’t have a separate agreement) will have to reduce the amount of it they dispense.
    Our health spending is pretty much capped each year: If the price of a drug rises, then the impact/£ ratio will eventually shift that money towards treating something else.

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      2 months ago

      It’s a change to private providers, not the NHS cost. The NHS cost has already been agreed (not sure for how many years though).

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      2 months ago

      NHS have their own agreement with the company they don’t buy retail so it doesn’t really matter what trump thinks. They have a contract in place and the pharmaceutical company can’t change the contract halfway through. I don’t know how long the contracts for though.