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Doctors ‘face jail over pharma payments’
August 24, 2015Sales and Marketing ABPI, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, PMCPA, bribery, doctor payments, health secretary, transparency
Healthcare professionals who have inappropriate financial links with pharma companies will face prosecution and up to 10 years in jail, …
Cost of diabetes treatment in England rises
August 12, 2015Manufacturing 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 …
Price tags on medicine packs a “headline grabbing gimmick”
August 7, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications Drug pricing, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, adherence, compliance
Plans to include a price tag on prescription medicines in England worth more than £20 have been dismissed as a …
Cancer Drugs Fund assessment to be handed over to NICE
July 22, 2015Medical Communications, Research and Development CDF, Cancer, Cancer Drugs Fund, NHS, NHS England, NHSE, NICE, cost effectiveness, cost-effectiveness
NICE will oversee the evaluation of Cancer Drugs Fund treatments in future, under new plans due for consultation by NHS …
Conservative announce NHS to receive a further £8 billion by 2020
July 9, 2015Budget, Chancellor, Chancellor of the exchequer, Conservatives, George Osborne, NHS, NHS funding, Tories, funding, government
The Conservative Government has confirmed the NHS will receive £10 billion in funding by 2020 in the Chancellor’s budget announcement.The …
Prescribing in England up 55% to £9bn over a decade
July 7, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing NHS, NHSIC, drugs, health and social care information centre, net ingredient cost, prescribing
The number of drugs issued in England continues to soar, according to the latest NHS figures which show prescribing in …
Prices to be printed on all prescribed NHS drugs over £20
July 2, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Jeremy Hunt, NHS, UK, drugs, health secretary, medicines
NHS drugs costing more than £20 will, from next year, have the price and the words “funded by the UK …
NICE asks for more evidence from dry eye treatment maker
June 24, 2015Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Ikervis, NHS, NICE, ciclosporin, santen pharma
A NICE appraisal committee has asked for more information on a treatment for chronic dry eye syndrome, after failing to …
Overcoming barriers in rare diseases
June 22, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BIA, NHS, Shire, bates, government, nps, rare diseases
In recent months the focus on the need to develop new drugs and fund new treatments for rare diseases has …
NHS England unveils digital roadmap
June 17, 2015Medical 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 …
NHS could save £5 billion each year with modest reform
June 11, 2015Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, brett wells, lord carter
The chairman of the NHS procurement and efficiency board Lord Carter has said the UK health body could save billions …
NICE rejects Otelza but SMC recommends it
June 11, 2015Sales and Marketing Astellas, Celgene, NHS, NICE, SMC, Xtandi, otezla
Draft guidance issued by NICE has seen rejections for products including Celgene’s Otelza and Astellas Pharma’s Xtandi, and a call …
Pharma underwrites medicines bill with £207 million
June 8, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, PPRS, ahsn, brett wells
The Department of Health and the ABPI have confirmed a payment of £207 million from pharma to underwrite growth of …
NICE: people should be more involved in medical decisions
June 2, 2015Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, medicines, optimisation
Around 15 million people in England now have at least one long-term condition, but figures suggest that as many as …
NICE sets out office for market access plans
May 28, 2015Sales and Marketing ABPI, EMA, NHS, NICE, eams, market access
The UK healthcare watchdog NICE is to set up a new office for market access to advise pharma companies on …
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