Regulatory Affairs
Speed Over Scrutiny? The High-Stakes Gamble Behind the NHS's New Fast-Track Drug Pilots
The UK government and the pharmaceutical industry have launched a series of pilot schemes designed to accelerate NHS patient access to innovative medicines — a direct consequence of the US-UK pharmaceutical trade arrangement that has already rewritten the terms of how Britain prices, approves, and funds new drugs. But with a BMJ analysis warning of £45 billion in diverted NHS resources and up to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, the pilots are arriving in the middle of one of the most contested healthcare policy disputes in a generation.
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