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UK backs away from ‘value-based pricing’ for drugs
The UK government appears to have rowed back on plans for a radical new pricing system for medicines that would have used independent assessments of their worth to limit costs. But some elements of the pharmaceutical industry are still warning that a new agreement on how much the country pays for drugs will drive research overseas.
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