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Cost of diabetes treatment in England rises

August 12, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, diabetes, health and social care information centre, prescribing

As diabetes patients increase in numbers the cost of treating the disease in England has increased to more than £800 …

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NHS England unveils digital roadmap

June 17, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GP, HSCIC, NHS, NIB, brett wells, choices, digital, wearables

NHS England has laid out digital technology plans that it says will completely transform services and improve health outcomes using …

News

NHS online starting to take shape

May 20, 2015
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, brett wells, nhs online

In England over 55 million patients can now order repeat prescriptions, book GP appointments and access their medical records online …

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Over one billion drugs dispensed in England in 2014, NHS report shows

April 9, 2015
Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, drug cost, net ingredient cost, prescribing, prescription cost analysis, prescriptions

Patients in England collected over 1.1 billion prescription items in 2014, according to NHS figures. Statistics from the Health and …

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HSCIC appoints new specialist

January 15, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, andy kinnear

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has appointed Andy Kinnear as a specialist. He will join the organisation …

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Half of England on prescription drugs

December 11, 2014
Sales and Marketing England, HSCIC, NHS, doctors, prescribing, prescriptions

Almost half of the people in England are taking regular prescription medicines according to a new report by the Health …

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Hunt unveils £10 billion NHS savings plan

November 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing Cameron, HSCIC, Hunt, Labour, NHS, burnham, digital, savings

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid out efficiency plans that he hopes will save the NHS up to £10 billion …

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Cost of NHS medicines rises

November 14, 2014
Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, NICE, PPRS, drugs, hospitals, spend

Hospitals in England are taking an increasing share of the NHS’s bill for drugs approved by NICE, according to a …

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Data authority chair calls for pharma transparency

June 24, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, care data, care.data, manning, transparency

 The chair of the UK’s national healthcare information provider says that government and industry have “a lot of work to …

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Insurance firms ‘will not be sold records’

March 3, 2014
Sales and Marketing GPs, HSCIC, Hunt, NHS, care data, care.data

The government is to pledge that insurance companies will not be sold patients’ health records via the care.data information sharing …

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MPs concerned about care.data

February 27, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Dorrell, HSCIC, MPs, NHS, UK, care data, care.data, data

MPs have expressed concerns about security in the delayed NHS care.data programme which will see medical information routinely swapped between …

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NHS England delays patient data roll-out

February 19, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing England, HSCIC, NHS, care data, care.data, data, patients

The giant NHS database that could allow pharma firms to buy into patient records will now not be launched until …

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Bowel cancer surgery ‘increases chances’

July 5, 2013
Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, bowel cancer

Having surgery to treat bowel cancer massively increases a patient’s chance of survival, according to data from a new national …

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NICE medicines uptake dissected

November 23, 2012
Sales and Marketing HSCIC, IMS, NICE

Lack of diagnosis, ignoring required tests, muddled commissioning and local policy variations are among the key reasons why NICE-approved drugs …

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