The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care is planning to increase the repayments that pharmaceutical companies make under the statutory pricing scheme so as to make sure the scheme achieves its aim of controlling National Health Service spending on branded medicines and that it maintains commercial equivalence with the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS).
UK Planning To Raise Industry Repayments Under Statutory Pricing Scheme
The UK government says that payments need to rise if the stability of the statutory and voluntary drug pricing schemes is to be ensured.
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