The UK government has reached a new five-year medicines pricing deal with the pharma industry to replace the almost 60-year-old Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS).
Spark Therapeutics’ gene therapy for a rare inherited sight disorder, Luxturna has been approved in Europe, but there was still no word on price from marketing partner Novartis.
Pfizer plans to raise the prices of 41 prescription drugs in January, despite falling foul of President Trump, who criticised the company’s stance on costs earlier this summer.
Pfizer has lost its protracted patent battle in the UK for big-selling drug Lyrica, potentially exposing it to claims for hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS.
UK politicians could go public with the price of Vertex's cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi, if the company does not strike a deal giving NHS patients access by the end of the month.