Les Rose
Drug development contracts: can lessons be learned from healthcare delivery?
March 16, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CCG, CRO, Les Rose, NHS, drug development, trials
There is a very good question to ask at the beginning of every project: “What does success look like?” If …
Medical publishing: can we rely on it?
January 5, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, csr, journals, medical publishing, peer, publishing, transparency
The explosive proliferation of journals suggests that medical publishing is an attractive business. But it’s not without its critics, as …
The numbers game: getting quantitative information to patients
November 17, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kadcyla, Les Rose, clinical, myeloma, numbers, numerics
The great physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you can measure something, and express it in numbers, then you know something …
Is clinical research management evidence-based?
September 29, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, Six Sigma, clinical trials, evidence, neuro-linguistic
Those who follow my columns will know that I am in the habit of starting with reminiscences. It’s something that …
The end of salesmanship?
August 18, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, Rose, a bpi, all trials, evidence, gold acre, sales, salesmanship
Although my specialism for the last 35 years has been clinical research, I actually started in the pharmaceutical industry as …
Clinical evidence revisited
May 18, 2014Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, Lord Saatchi, Medical Innovation Bill, clinical trials
One of the most important words in the English language is ‘evidence’. It has had a seismic effect on the …
Look beyond the screen
March 3, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, cliinical, data, screening, trials
It makes sense, doesn’t it? You have a drug that’s effective for a certain disease, but no patients. What do …
EU rethinks regulation
December 2, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing EU, Goldacre, Les Rose, MHRA, regulation
What has happened to the science in clinical research? Well, it is still there, but with the explosion in the …
NHS patient data and clinical research – coming together at last?
January 28, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, NHS, R&D, clinical, records, transparency
In the mid-1990s, an NHS teaching hospital close to my offices invited proposals for expanding its clinical trials unit. Hitherto …
Goldacre is right – greater honesty is needed
November 7, 2012Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bad pharma, Goldacre, Les Rose
One of the most trenchant critics of pseudo-science in healthcare, the neuro-psychologist Dr Ben Goldacre, has turned his guns on …
Is it really safety first?
October 2, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Les Rose, Roche
The idea of ensuring that drugs are adequately safe is not very old. Legislation that covers drug safety to the …
The number one reason for a failed project
August 16, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Communication, Failed project, Les Rose, clinical trials
There was once a company that had an amusing form of words for admonishing people. It went something like this: …
The problem with medical publishing
July 6, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, MMR, medical publishing
I’ve often said that however bad one’s research, it’s possible to get it published somewhere. I have been thinking about …
Professional regulation – a DIY job?
May 2, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CPD, GMC, Les Rose, drug discovery, regulation
What would happen if we had no drug regulatory bodies, such as the MHRA and the EMA? Can you imagine …
Meetings, bloody meetings
March 16, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, Meetings, clinical trials
I read recently that less than 2% of NHS Trust board meeting agenda items require decisions. What happens during the …
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