{"id":50875,"date":"2026-07-03T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50875"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:21:22","slug":"229000-excess-deaths-the-cost-of-us-uk-trade-deal-the-latest-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50875","title":{"rendered":"229,000 excess deaths: the cost of US-UK trade deal? &#8211; The Latest | NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The NHS will divert billions of pounds from essential services to pay for new medicines, under the terms of the US-UK trade deal agreed in December, which could lead to more than 200,000 excess deaths, analysis has found.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have defended the deal as a way of helping British drug exports avoid US tariffs and giving patients access to vital medication, but critics accuse the Labour party of caving into pressure from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Hough speaks to columnist Aditya Chakrabortty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS will divert billions of pounds from essential services to pay for new medicines, under the terms of the US-UK trade deal agreed in December, which could lead to more than 200,000 excess deaths, analysis has found. Ministers have defended the deal as a way of helping British drug exports avoid US tariffs and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[342,696,314,11770,1193,1229,430,24225],"class_list":{"0":"post-50875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-cost","9":"tag-deal","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-excess","12":"tag-latest","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-trade","15":"tag-usuk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}