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Pharmacists could save the NHS £1.1 billion

October 20, 2014
Sales and Marketing GP, GPs, NHS, UK, pharmacists

New research from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society shows that common ailments such as coughs and sore throats cost the NHS …

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Novartis cancer drug beating path to NHS

October 17, 2014
Sales and Marketing GIST, Glivec, NHS, NICE, imatinib, uturn

NICE has issued final draft guidance recommending Novartis’s Glivec for up to three years in people who have had a …

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NICE not recommending Dendreon cancer vaccine

October 16, 2014
Sales and Marketing Dendreon, NHS, NICE, Provenge, sipuleucel-T, therapeutic cancer vaccine

NICE has issued preliminary draft guidance not recommending Dendreon’s therapeutic cancer vaccine Provenge for prostate cancer in people whose disease …

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NICE releases ‘person-centred’ medicines optimisation guidelines

October 14, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, NICE, UK, WHO, Whitehead

NICE has recently released the draft of its first guidance on medicines optimisation that it hopes will be more person-centered …

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NHS staff striking over pay

October 13, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing British Association of Occupational Therapists., GMB, GPs, Hunt, NHS, UCATT, midwives, strike

Over 400,000 NHS staff have gone on strike for four hours as a 1% pay rise requested by Unions was …

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Pharma and transparency: actions speak louder than words

October 13, 2014
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, UK, alltrials, andrew powrie-smith, hcp, transparency

As an industry we continue to deliver innovative, life changing medicines and rewrite the story of many diseases, yet our …

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Public opinion divided over UK drugs spend

October 7, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, CDF, NHS, NICE, PPRS, UK, coalition, drugs spending, government

A new survey conducted for the ABPI shows that public opinion on whether the UK spends enough money on medicines …

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MRC commits £60m to new research projects

October 7, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing MRC, NHS, Parkinson's, Parkinsons, UCL, experimental medicine challenge

Three new research programmes that aim to deliver a step-change in the understanding of disease by using human volunteers in …

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NHS England consults on Cancer Drugs Fund

October 6, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, NHS, NHS England, commissioning, oncology

NHS England is declaring new changes to the way the Cancer Drugs Fund operates in order to plug a major …

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Conservative government would ‘protect’ NHS

October 2, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Conservatives, Labour, Miliband, NHS, burnham, david cameron, lib dems

A majority Conservative government would protect the English NHS budget in real terms from 2015 to 2020, the British prime …

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UK to ‘guarantee’ seven-day access to GPs

September 30, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing BMA, Cameron, GPs, NHS, UK, doctors

Under a UK Conservative government everyone would have access to GP care seven days a week as well as a …

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NHS stem cell research link up

September 29, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS, precious cells group, precious cells miracle, stem cell

Precious Cells Miracle, the charitable arm of stem cell firm Precious Cells Group, has partnered with the Croydon Health Services …

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Labour makes NHS central to 2015 election pledge

September 24, 2014
Sales and Marketing 2015 election, Conservative, GPs, Labour, NHS, manifesto, nurses

The Labour Opposition party has set out its plans to ‘save and transform’ the NHS and has made this the key …

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NHS launches transparency website

September 23, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, NHS England, mynhs, transparency, website

NHS England has launched a new ‘comparison website tool’ that allows health and social care organisations to see how their …

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Half of cancers diagnosed at late stage

September 22, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CRUK, Cancer, NHS, UK, oncology

A Cancer Research UK study out today reveals that nearly half of all cancers in England are diagnosed at an …

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