bmj;391/oct22_2/r2212/FAF1faThe campaigning groups 38 Degrees and Just Treatment present three petitions—totalling more than 250 000 signatures—to the Department of Health and Social Care in London on 13 October opposing plans for the NHS to pay pharmaceutical companies 25% more for drugs.Activists sporting Keir Starmer and Donald Trump masks also held a giant cheque to show what they claim is the cost of the UK “caving” to the demands of US president, Donald Trump, and big pharma on drug pricing.A Just Treatment spokesperson said, “We are already paying over the odds for medicines these companies price at eyewatering amounts thanks to their patent monopolies.”
