"By [2030], the authors believe, the cost will be a total £44.7bn.... Using many years of data on the links between NHS spending and patient health, the authors’ model forecasts that this will cause an extra 229,000 deaths by 2036... 2x the avoidable deaths Britain suffered during Covid."
@nickharkaway.comIn normal times, this is the kind of thing ministers resign over, and which causes governments to fall.
Hey ho. 2026 continues fine.
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty