Trump rates could hit the United Kingdom medicine, Wes Streeting Warns | Health
The US rates could negatively affect the offer of medicines to the United Kingdom, the Secretary of Health warned.
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Wes Streeting told Sky News that the chaos caused by the fears of a global commercial war could interrupt medicine supplies.
“As always in terms of medicine, there are a series of factors at stake,” he said. “There have been challenges in terms of production, challenges in terms of distribution and if we start seeing the rates start, this is another level of challenge, but we look at this situation extremely closely.”
He added: “We are constantly looking at and acting on this situation to try to obtain medicines in the country, to make sure that we have availability, to show a certain flexibility in terms of the provision of medicines, to face the deficiency.
“But if they are medicines, whether it is parts for production, whether it is … the ability of companies in this country to achieve a profit, this is an extremely turbulent situation.”
Speaking for BBC breakfast, streaming also said that patients “not on sale” patients as part of any commercial negotiations with the United States designed to mitigate the impact of the new rates.
“THE NHS It is not on sale and our patients are not on sale, “said Streeting.
He told the Toray program of the BBC Radio 4 that the approach of the President of the United States to the rates was in response to the “disadvantages of globalization”, in particular the deindustrialisation proven by some communities in advanced economies.
But he added that also at the best end of the tariff regime “the withdrawals imposed on the United Kingdom were still” harmful to British interests “.
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