politics

News

CVS Caremark president David Joyner, Express Scripts president Adam Kautzner, and OptimRx chief executive Patrick Conway

PBMs under the cosh at House hearing on drug pricing

The top three pharmacy benefit managers in the US felt the heat at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, as lawmakers grilled executives over their business practices and accused them

News

House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (r)

PBMs will face House committee grilling next week

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will quiz leaders of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) at a hearing next week, amid scrutiny of the sector's role in rising healthcare cos

News

Streeting orders “raw and frank” investigation of NHS

New UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting had only been in post a day before declaring the NHS ‘broken’.

News

New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R), with Cabinet shoo-in Angela Rayner

NHS will take more than one term to fix, says Streeting

While the headlines are all about the Labour landslide in the UK general election this morning, Wes Streeting, who has been shadow health secretary in opposition and may well have the equiv

News

UK pharma industry delivers election ‘wish list’

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is calling on political parties contesting the general election to spell out their plans to nurture and drive growth in t

News