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Brexit Vote Dismays UK Pharma, Triggers Calls To Leverage NHS As Offset

 
• By Sten Stovall

The UK now urgently needs to leverage the uniqueness of its National Health System to attract global pharma companies and offset the anti-business message contained in Thursday's Brexit vote, and the government's imminent accelerated access review needs to contain the first elements of that objective, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

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ABPI CEO Mike Thompson • Source: ABPI

Mike Thompson's job as CEO of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry became considerably harder Friday with the news Britain voted on June 23 to leave the EU.

"As of today investment decisions that might have come to the UK will start to go to Continental Europe because if you have a choice of investing somewhere that will...

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