{"id":134458,"date":"2025-12-07T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=134458"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:20:14","slug":"trump-admin-claims-win-as-uk-bows-to-pressure-on-nhs-drug-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/trump-admin-claims-win-as-uk-bows-to-pressure-on-nhs-drug-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin claims win as UK bows to pressure on NHS drug spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>LONDON \u2014 The U.K. has agreed to raise how much its National Health Service spends on new drugs, in a concession made under pressure from the Trump administration in return for tariff-free access to the U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see Britain increase the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) cost-effectiveness threshold by 25 percent,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/britain-eyes-nhs-drug-spending-hike-to-stave-off-trump-tariffs\/\">as POLITICO first reported in October<\/a>, and slash the cap on revenue the NHS can reclaim from drugmakers to no more than 15 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-and-us-poised-to-announce-nhs-drug-pricing-deal-today\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Politico<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The U.K. has agreed to raise how much its National Health Service spends on new drugs, in a concession made under pressure from the Trump administration in return &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":134465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,59,5,47,45],"tags":[65,2777,2211,800,877],"class_list":["post-134458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-sector","category-government","category-health-sector","category-news","category-north-america","category-uk-ireland","tag-nhs","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-tariffs","tag-trump","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}