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Postcode lottery for drugs in Scotland

Postcode lottery for drugs in Scotland
A top pharmaceuticals chief has told MSPs that Scottish patients face a postcode lottery to determine their access to innovative new drugs.

On day one of an access to medicines inquiry launched by Holyrood, Andy Powrie-Smith, director of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, told the panel that the UK suffers from huge regional variation in access to medicines and that bureaucracy at the health board level in Scotland made access "low and slow for patients".

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