Department of health in UK to consult on value-based pricing this week
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The department of health in the UK will this week launch for consultation its plans to introduce value-based pricing for pharmaceuticals, it has told Scrip. The consultation will touch on the government's plans for NICE, the health technology appraisal institute, which will see the institute cede to GPs (primary care physicians) its authority to definitively recommend whether or not to make certain drugs available on the NHS.