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Room for NHS improvement, despite international ranking

November 11, 2011
Sales and Marketing Andrew Lansley, NHS, healthcare, international healthcare

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has been banging the drum for the NHS on the world stage during a speech in …

Kaiser Permanente

Learning from other healthcare models

January 13, 2011
CapGemini, Kaiser Permanente, NHS, healthcare, integrated healthcare

When you need high quality healthcare that is also affordable, prevention is definitely better than cure. How can governments and …

Government directs councils to supply personal health budgets

November 17, 2010
Sales and Marketing big society, government, healthcare, reforms

The government announced this week that it expects local councils to provide personal health budgets to a million eligible people …

World Class Commissioning: how to be partners in quality

January 14, 2010
Sales and Marketing NHS, NHS funding, commissioning, funding, healthcare, marketing

World Class Commissioning has been heralded as a critical mechanism to revolutionise healthcare services in the UK. Now two years …

New cancer cases set to hit 17 million by 2020

September 2, 2009
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, healthcare

The next ten years will see a 30% leap in the number of new cancer cases across the world, according …

Americans doubt benefits of health reform

August 27, 2009
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing US, US healthcare, healthcare

Most Americans are satisfied with their existing medical arrangements, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.The results seem to be …

Vasella adds voice to NHS criticism

August 27, 2009
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS, healthcare

Novartis chief executive Daniel Vasella defended the industry's high cost oncology treatments, and said he would not want to be …

US pharma accused of selling out to Obama

August 19, 2009
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing US, US healthcare, healthcare, industry

The US industry is accused of selling out to President Obama’s healthcare take-over, with its leaders seeking favourable treatment from …

Online hospital comparison site launched

August 13, 2009
Medical Communications NHS, digi, healthcare

Patients in the UK have been given the chance to rate hospitals by a variety of criteria using a new …

Obama hits back at healthcare reform critics

August 13, 2009
NHS, Obama, US healthcare, healthcare

President Obama has hit back at critics of his reform plans, saying their campaigns are using scare tactics to keep …

Tories would scrap NHS database plans

August 11, 2009
NHS, digi, healthcare

The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the government's plans for a central database of patient records, in order to save …

Kennedy and Drayson: parallel plans to boost UK’s innovation agenda

August 5, 2009
Research and Development NICE, healthcare

1: The Office of Life Science’s ‘Blueprint’The first to be launched was the ‘Blueprint’ – a new strategic vision aiming …

NHS faces ‘bleak’ funding prospects

July 29, 2009
NHS, healthcare

The prospects for future funding of the NHS "now look bleak", according to a new report by the King's Fund …

The Trillion Dollar Project: US healthcare reform begins

July 17, 2009
Sales and Marketing Obama, US, healthcare, reform

The battle to determine how the US healthcare system will be reformed is heating up, with dozens of interest groups …

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