Industry Laments UK Decision To Go Ahead With ‘Unprecedented’ Sales Repayments

The UK government has confirmed plans to raise payments made by drug companies in the statutory scheme for branded medicines to 24.4% for 2023, despite clear warnings from industry that the approach is unsustainable and jeopardizes the delivery of the government's ambitions for life sciences in the post-Brexit UK.

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The UK drug pricing system involves a framework of repayments by industry • Source: Shutterstock

The repayment percentages confirmed by the UK government under the statutory scheme for branded medicines are “significantly out of line with any other comparable country and will have a real impact on NHS patients and the UK’s ambitions for the life sciences sector,” according to David Watson, executive director of patient access at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).

The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed earlier this month that it plans to raise the percentage of sales that companies pay back under the statutory scheme from 10.9% to 14.3% in 2022 and to 24.4% in 2023, following the completion of a consultation that ran from 14 March to 26 April

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