UK Pricing Deal To Address Barriers to New Drug Uptake

Under the UK’s newly published voluntary pricing and access scheme, stakeholders will be more easily able to track a new product’s journey from the development pipeline to licensing and on to commissioning by the National Health Service. A close eye will also be kept on any access problems caused by variations in the implementation of HTA guidance.

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The UK's pricing deal includes measures on access to new drugs • Source: Shutterstock

The UK’s new voluntary scheme on pricing, access and growth (VPAG) includes more effective ways of measuring the uptake of new drugs and better tools for detecting barriers to access caused by local variations in the implementation of guidance from health technology assessment (HTA) bodies such as England’s NICE.

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