Campaigners believe such a fundamental change to how NICE functions should have required primary legislation, rather than secondary legislation pushed through with limited scrutiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some MPs have already tried to push back on the legislative changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell led a cross-party intervention, writing to former Health Secretary Wes Streeting to publish the government\u2019s impact assessment of the deal and allow MPs to debate it in parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The letter, seen by POLITICO, was signed by more than 20 MPs, including former Green party leaders Si\u00e2n Berry, Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsay, Green MP Hannah Spencer, Labour MP Andy McDonald and SNP MP Seamus Logan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply concerned that the government is going against its promise to keep the NHS off the table in a trade deal with Trump,\u201d the letter stated. \u201cThis agreement will likely have a huge impact on our health services, especially if it means diverting funding from our parts of the NHS.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, said the government is expected to respond \u201cwithin days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners believe such a fundamental change to how NICE functions should have required primary legislation, rather than secondary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[39099,18292,203316,2980,1343,628,141,102,2960,164964,147193,467,10269,423,6606,469,306,1352,156,426,56,54,158,55,7747],"class_list":["post-594747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-accountability","tag-advocacy","tag-andy-mcdonald","tag-companies","tag-courts","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-james-murray","tag-john-mcdonnell","tag-markets","tag-medicines","tag-parliament","tag-patients","tag-produce","tag-regulation","tag-services","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wes-streeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}