No­var­tis sounds alarm on un­sus­tain­able drug sup­ply chain if no-deal Brex­it be­comes re­al­i­ty

With the UK par­lia­ment no clos­er to find­ing a way to agree on a Brex­it deal, the height­ened prospect of a no-deal di­vorce has trig­gered Swiss drug­mak­er No­var­tis to urge Britain’s law­mak­ers to come up with a sus­tain­able way to pre­serve the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sup­ply chain, say­ing it has be­gun stock­pil­ing so UK pa­tients have undis­turbed ac­cess to the 120 mil­lion packs of med­i­cines the com­pa­ny makes for the re­gion each year.

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