The price for a month's supply of the highest dose of the medicine will increase from £122 to £330, Lilly said, adding the adjustment will be made by next month.

Eli Lilly will raise the UK list price of its weight-loss and type 2 diabetes treatment Mounjaro by up to 170% to be in line with other European markets, it said on Thursday, as the pharma industry responds to U.

It comes as President Donald Trump pressures drugmakers to lower U.S. drug prices while hiking them abroad under a policy called "most favored nation."