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Raising the bar: can higher drug spending in the UK deliver for pharma and patients?

The UK considers raising NICE’s cost-effectiveness threshold, testing the balance between funding innovation and conserving ...
FiercePharma

After protests, pharma industry reaches 'landmark' drug spending deal with UK government

After blasting the U.K.’s drug pricing policy, the pharma industry has secured a new government spending deal featuring a higher revenue cap and an innovative drug-friendly rebate mechanism. In a ...
Sky

UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow should not be seen as 'silver bullet', says Westminster committee

The UK's first safer drug consumption room should not be seen as a "silver bullet" to tackle Scotland's drug deaths crisis, a Westminster committee has said. MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee have ...
The Conversation

UK drug policy: how seizing passports will not stop illicit dug use

Tammy Ayres has previously received funding from a range of local and national authority bodies and registered organisations, including research councils. She does not however work for, consult, own ...
CNN

Scotland faces up to its drug crisis by offering the UK’s first supervised injection facility

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...
The Conversation

Drug deaths are rising and overdose prevention centres save lives, so why is the UK unwilling to introduce them?

James Nicholls was previously chief executive officer of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, which received funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to support research on overdose prevention ...