Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15462

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Publication type: Journal Article

Siva N.
The drug price is right—or is it?
The Lancet 2009 Apr 18; 373:(9672):1326 - 1327
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60756-X/fulltext?_eventId=login

Abstract:

Most experts have welcomed the UK’s new flexible drug-pricing scheme, but some have raised concerns about the plan’s finer points and its impact on industry. Nayanah Siva reports.
4 years after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) condemned the UK’s drug pricing policies, a new arrangement between the UK Government and the pharmaceutical industry has begun. The updated pharmaceutical price regulation scheme (PPRS) of 2009 aims to allow a flexible drug-pricing scheme, with focus placed on the clinical …