So the UK has agreed to raise the price it pays for US-supplied medicines as part of a deal to avoid tariffs on UK pharmaceutical exports to the USA.... but the Treasury is not allowing for this price rise in its NHS budgetary settlement.
So, its one more mechanism to transfer NHS spending to the private sector while worsening the budget pressures on the health service.
Resident Doctors might also ask: if you can find £1.5bn for this, where's our money?
#NHS #pharmaceuticals #politics
h/t FT
Scots told to wear face mask if you feel ill
Scots advised to wear face #masks & stay away from #work, #school, #hospitals until they are better as flu cases across the country continue to rise
Public #Health #Scotland has advised anyone with flu symptoms to stay away from public settings and to wear face masks in high-risk parts of hospitals. Some #NHS trusts have also asked anyone with flu symptoms to avoid visiting hospitals entirely.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25677864.scots-told-wear-face-mask-feel-ill-flu-surge/
The Bear, on the continuing failure to address the social care crisis & its impact on the NHS:
'Flu is here five weeks early this year. The politics are decades out of date. Unless something changes very soon - loudly & unapologetically - this winter will not be the worst we’ve ever seen. It will be the winter that snapped the NHS in half'!
And if the NHS really does 'snap' this winter, Labour will not be able to place all the blame on the Tories!
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-punishment-model-of-government
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