Guide to PPRS and other UK health cost containment measures

In an otherwise volatile pharmaceutical world, in the UK, 2009 has seen two notable anniversaries, the implementation of the 10th re-negotiated  Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme in January and the 10th birthday  of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in  April (Marketletters passim). PPRS and NICE, are among abbreviations  most widely recognized, but their structures, functions, ways of  working and inter-relationship are often less than fully understood.

Like them or hate them, these are original, well-established and  influential models that governments and industry bodies elsewhere look  to. A great deal has changed, but much has not.

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