Accord Healthcare unlocks £50m government fund to boost medicines manufacturing in the North-East

Accord Healthcare United Kingdom England

Accord welcomes a joint £50 million deal with the government to invest in the manufacture and production of its high-quality medicines at its plant in Fawdon, Newcastle upon Tyne.The investment will create over 50 new skilled jobs and safeguard the facility's long-term future.Accord is one of the UK's largest providers of medicines to patients; it supplies around 10% of the volume of all medicines to the NHS in the UK. Equating to 7 packs per second, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.75% of those medicines are manufactured here at our United Kingdom sites.View original content:https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/accord-healthcare-unlocks-50m-government-fund-to-boost-medicines-manufacturing-in-the-north-east-302294010.html