NHS / US Drug Price Increases: Ministers must come clean

8 Oct 2025

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to reports that the Government is proposing an increase to the amount the NHS will pay pharmaceutical firms for drugs, in a bid to steer U.S. President Donald Trump away from his threatened tariffs on the sector, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care Spokesperson Helen Morgan said:

"It beggars belief that the Government is bending to a bullying US president having told patients for years that life-saving new drugs are unaffordable.

"Ministers must come clean about how much this move will cost and whether it will be funded by cuts elsewhere in the NHS. They should also lay their plans before Parliament without delay so they can be properly scrutinised.

“It increasingly feels like this Government puts the whims of Trump before everything else - even our precious NHS.”

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

Reported here.

 


 

 

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