{"id":190,"date":"2026-02-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:01:00","slug":"cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of UK\u2019s drug price with US will come out of NHS budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><p>Department of health, not Treasury, will foot the bill \u2013 with costs forecast to reach \u00a39bn<\/p><p>The cost of the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/01\/uk-us-agree-zero-tariff-pharmaceuticals-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug pricing deal with the Trump administration<\/a> will come out of the NHS budget instead of the Treasury\u2019s and could eventually reach \u00a39bn a year, campaigners fear.<\/p><p>Patrick Vallance, the science minister, has confirmed that the costs \u2013 initially an extra \u00a31bn over three years\u2013 will be borne by the Department of Health and Social Care, which funds the NHS in England, and not the Treasury.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/04\/cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/04\/cost-of-uks-drug-price-with-us-will-come-out-of-nhs-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Department of health, not Treasury, will foot the bill \u2013 with costs forecast to reach \u00a39bnThe cost of the government\u2019s drug pricing deal with the Trump administration will come out of the NHS budget instead of the Treasury\u2019s and could eventually reach \u00a39bn a year, campaigners fear.Patrick Vallance, the science minister, has confirmed that the costs \u2013 initially an extra&hellip;","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}