Value-Based Pricing's Slow Progress In U.K. Worries Industry
Executive Summary
With eighteen months until the start of a new drug pricing scheme, the slow progress and lack of detail on the U.K.'s value-based pricing (VBP) approach worries industry and suggests transitional arrangements may be necessary.
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