The low-down on the UK's new pricing scheme

16 April 2019

The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) is dead; long live the Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access (Voluntary Scheme)!

In the UK, drugmakers have long had the choice of undertaking pricing discussions through the voluntary PPRS as an alternative to the so-called “Statutory Scheme,” the default framework the country’s health ministry uses to control the cost of branded medicines.

The PPRS codified a series of measures aimed at promoting access and innovation, with an in-built affordability mechanism that would safeguard the sustainability of National Health Service (NHS) budgets.

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