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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 23h

🚨 BREAKING: Reports say the UK is preparing to hike #NHS drug prices - a move pushed by Donald Trump & Big Pharma so they can pocket even bigger profits.

If this goes ahead, more NHS funds will be siphoned from care to corporate greed.

Take action now: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...

Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS!

Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 7h

Worrying signs the govt could cave to Big Pharma 💰

Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.

Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇

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UK move to inflate pharma profits threatens NHS — Just Treatment

Statement in response to reports the government plans to raise NHS drug price limits — a move that risks importing America’s drug pricing crisis and putting profits before patients.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 22h

🚨 Outrageous: the UK govt is reportedly ready to make the #NHS pay 25% more for medicines - caving to pressure from Trump and Big Pharma.

Every extra pound handed to drug company bosses is a pound stolen from patient care.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 23h

🚨 BREAKING: Reports say the UK is preparing to hike #NHS drug prices - a move pushed by Donald Trump & Big Pharma so they can pocket even bigger profits.

If this goes ahead, more NHS funds will be siphoned from care to corporate greed.

Take action now: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ke...

Keir Starmer: stand up to Trump’s attacks on our NHS!

Donald Trump is using global tariff threats to force countries to gut the protections that keep medicine prices in check. The UK has agreed to review the pricing of drugs on the NHS in order to strike...

actionnetwork.org

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 1d

“We are at risk of importing America’s disastrous drug pricing crisis and all the suffering it causes.”

Great statement from @justtreatment.org on the reports the U.K. is ready to give in to Big Pharma and Trump on medicine pricing

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UK move to inflate pharma profits threatens NHS — Just Treatment

Statement in response to reports the government plans to raise NHS drug price limits — a move that risks importing America’s drug pricing crisis and putting profits before patients.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 3d

"Overdiagnosis” is being used as a smokescreen for further benefit cuts.

The real youth mental health crisis? Poverty, housing stress, climate anxiety & insecure work.

But Labour would rather question diagnoses than tackle the policies & corporations making people sick in the first place.

Exclusive: Streeting orders probe of mental illness overdiagnosis

The health and social care secretary is to launch a review of the prevalence of mental illness and neurodivergence, with a particular focus on whether some conditions are being overdiagnosed, HSJ can ...

www.hsj.co.uk

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 3d

🚨Trump and Big Pharma are teaming up to drain #NHS funds and hike drug prices.

Watch our webinar to learn what’s happening and how we can fight back ⬇️

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Trump & big pharma's war on the NHS

YouTube video by Just Treatment

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Balanced Economy Project @balancedeconomy.bsky.social · 7d

Big Pharma’s cartel-like tactics are hurting the #NHS and patients are paying the price.

Along with @justtreatment.org & @globaljusticenow.bsky.social we call on the CMA to investigate the coordinated threats to pull UK investment.

Read the letter:🔗 www.balancedeconomy.org/latest/lette...

Campaigners demand investigation into big pharama’s “cartel-like” threats to the NHS — Balanced Economy Project

www.balancedeconomy.org

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 11d

🚨 Speaker line-up announced! 🚨

Our upcoming webinar - Trump & Big Pharma’s War on the NHS - brings together expert campaigners from the UK & US to expose Trump and Big Pharma’s dangerous agenda.

📅 Wed 1 Oct, 8–9pm

Register now: actionnetwork.org/events/trump...

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 9d

Competition law as a route to challenging monopoly power has a good track record. Can it help make medicines more affordable and accessible? In SAfrica it has…. @justtreatment.org

Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 9d

NGOs demand UK competition authority probe pharma over investment pauses

A letter to the Competition and Markets Authority from three NGOs accuses companies of “suspected” anticompetitive behavior.

www.politico.eu

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 9d

🚨 We joined @globaljusticenow.bsky.social & Balanced Economy to demand the UK competition watchdog investigates Big Pharma.

Drug giants are pausing UK investments in an attempt to bully the NHS into paying more for medicines.

Patients’ lives are on the line.

www.politico.eu/article/ngo-...

NGOs demand UK competition authority probe pharma over investment pauses

A letter to the Competition and Markets Authority from three NGOs accuses companies of “suspected” anticompetitive behavior.

www.politico.eu

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: We, @justtreatment.org and @balancedeconomy.bsky.social have written to ask the competition authorities to investigate Big Pharma’s campaign to push up the price the NHS pays for medicines, to see if it is in breach of competition law 👇🏽

www.politico.eu/article/ngo-...

NGOs demand UK competition authority probe pharma over investment pauses

A letter to the Competition and Markets Authority from three NGOs accuses companies of “suspected” anticompetitive behavior.

www.politico.eu

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 9d

Care workers keep our health & care system alive – yet
Wes Streeting plan delays real pay rises until 2028, with just £500m on the table.

Unions are right: Without proper, sustained investment, #NHS staff & patients will keep paying the price.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Labour to tackle care sector crisis in England with pay increase and new negotiating body

Exclusive: Wes Streeting to put £500m behind initial rise but unions say ‘substantially more’ investment will be needed

www.theguardian.com

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 11d

Israel’s relentless military attacks are not only killing hundreds of Palestinians every week - they’re preventing the injured from being able to access any medical treatment too.

This is unconscionable.

Sanctions now. Stop the genocide. Free Palestine.

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 12d

As tanks closed in and relentless airstrikes occurred within a kilometre of our clinics, it was impossible to continue our vital work.

Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support.

Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

MSF halts operations in Gaza City as Israeli offensive intensifies, hospitals overflow and civilians face dire shortages of care, shelter and essentials.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 11d

🚨 Speaker line-up announced! 🚨

Our upcoming webinar - Trump & Big Pharma’s War on the NHS - brings together expert campaigners from the UK & US to expose Trump and Big Pharma’s dangerous agenda.

📅 Wed 1 Oct, 8–9pm

Register now: actionnetwork.org/events/trump...

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 15d

🚨 The govt has handed over £6 million to Deloitte & Addleshaw Goddard to design private finance models for #NHS clinics.

PFI left us with £40bn debt + crumbling hospitals. Now they want to do it again.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics

Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

www.theguardian.com

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 15d

🚨The government claimed NHS waiting lists were falling, but research & patient stories reveal that many people are being deleted ⬇️

Even then, the list has risen for the past 2 months.

Wes Streeting must deliver real solutions.

justtreatment.org/news/2025/9/...

Patient stories from the NHS waiting list — Just Treatment

With the NHS waiting list figures rising once again and the government being accused of misleadingly deleting people off the list, we share the stories of NHS patients being directly impacted.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 15d

The Labour government claims NHS waiting lists are falling but research & patients’ stories show that many are being deleted ⬇️

Even then, the list has risen for the past 2 months.

We urgently need real solutions to the #NHSCrisis.

justtreatment.org/news/2025/9/...

Patient stories from the NHS waiting list — Just Treatment

With the NHS waiting list figures rising once again and the government being accused of misleadingly deleting people off the list, we share the stories of NHS patients being directly impacted.

justtreatment.org

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 20d

This summer, our patient leaders gathered for a weekend of reflection, strategy and connection.

We looked back on the year, planned for what’s ahead, and shared games, music and community.

To learn more about our work, join our mailing list: justtreatment.org/join

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 21d

Trump’s lavish UK visit hides a threat to our NHS.

He & Big Pharma want to scrap rules that keep medicines affordable - draining more #NHS funds into pharma profits.

📅 Join our webinar on Wed 1 Oct (8pm) to learn more.

Sign up ⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/trump...

Trump & big pharma’s war on the NHS

At 8pm on Wednesday 1st October, join Just Treatment for an online webinar: Trump & Big Pharma’s war on the NHS. Donald Trump and the pharmaceutical industry are teaming up to bully governments into ...

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 23d

“When I look at the facts in the Rwandan genocide, it’s very similar to this. You dehumanise your victims. They’re animals & so without conscience, you can kill them”

The UK government should not be an ally to a government guilty of ongoing genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry

Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide

www.theguardian.com

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 26d

“I was left in pain for hours because there simply weren’t enough staff.”

A Just Treatment supporter shares their experience of how #NHS under-resourcing is leaving patients suffering.

Read more ⬇️
justtreatment.org/news/2025/8/...

NHS under-resourcing is leaving patients in pain — Just Treatment

A Just Treatment supporter shares their recent experiences of how lack of staff capacity in NHS hospitals is leaving patients in pain.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 28d

Trump’s agenda has always put profits before people – from tearing up protections for patients to backing Big Pharma’s greed. His state visit is not welcome here.

We’ll be supporting the @ukstoptrump.bsky.social's demo on Sept 17th in London, to stand for health & justice. ✊💊🌍

Poster announcing a national demonstration against Trump’s state visit. Large bold text reads: ‘TRUMP NOT WELCOME’. Below, it says: ‘London | Wed 17 September. Assemble 2pm Portland Place. Rally 5pm Parliament Sq.’ Website at the bottom: stoptrump.org.uk.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 29d

Jackie waited 11 hours for an ambulance. Days later, she tragically passed away.

Her son, Mathew Hulbert is speaking out, because 3 years on families are still facing the same deadly delays.

Read his story ⬇️
metro.co.uk/2025/09/09/m...

Mum died waiting 11 hours for an ambulance - I won’t forget her cries

I started researching ambulance waiting times and was horrified to discover how common our story was.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 29d

6/ This leak makes one thing clear: Big Pharma will collude with anyone to boost their profits.

They don’t care about the NHS - they care about money.

We need our government to stand up for patients, not bow to Trump and pharma’s threats.

Patients before profit. Always.

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