AstraZeneca CEO joins chorus of complainers on UK medicines access

30 December 2016
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January 3, 2017

The UK’s system for assessing the cost-effectiveness of medicines has long been criticized and the latest to slam the negations between drugmakers and the National Health Service (NHS) is AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot.

In the UK, even after drugs are approved by the European Medicines Agency, they face the additional hurdle of the watchdog the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which determines what treatments are to be made available for routine NHS use.

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