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NHS proton beam therapy refusal led to child patient disappearance
September 1, 2014Sales and Marketing Ashya King, Cancer, NHS, proton beam
The parents of child cancer patient Ashya King say they took him from hospital because NHS doctors would not offer …
Charities ‘disappointed’ in NICE and Janssen
August 15, 2014Sales and Marketing Cancer, Janssen, NHS, NICE, Zytiga, prostate
The Institute of Cancer Research and Prostate Cancer UK are both urging NICE and Janssen to ‘get their act together’ …
NHS in Scotland deploys mobile healthcare
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, Safe Patient Systems, Scotland, digital, nhs scotland, tablets
Mobile healthcare firm Safe Patient Systems is partnering with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) to provide mobile healthcare services …
Cost of diabetes treatment soars in England
August 13, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Lantus, NHS, Sanofi, diabetes
The NHS spent more than £2.2 million on average every day over the last financial year on diabetes medicines, according …
Copycat Lipitor helps toward £1.3bn NHS savings
July 29, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Lipitor, NHS, Teva, prescribing PPRS, vba
In 2013 generic usage increased to more than three-quarters of all NHS prescriptions according to new data released by the …
Wireless tech cannot substitute nurses
July 23, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Brighton, NHS, RCN, hospital, nursing, wireless tech
The Royal College of Nursing says that whilst a new wireless diagnostic patch is certainly innovative, they are concerned that …
Migrants must pay more for treatment on NHS
July 16, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, health tourism, migrants
Non-EU citizens will soon have to pay 150% of the cost of treatment on the NHS under new plans announced …
Illumina ‘gets 100,000 Genomes contract’
July 15, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, DNA, DoH, NHS, genomes, illimina
Gene analysis specialist Illumina has been chosen to deliver a project to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients by …
NICE ‘yes’ for Selincro
July 10, 2014Sales and Marketing Lundbeck, NHS, NICE, alcohol, nalmefene, selincro
Lundbeck has received a lift from UK drugs pricing watchdog NICE as it has recommended the firm’s alcohol dependency pill …
Alzheimer’s test ‘87% accurate’, say reports
July 9, 2014Sales and Marketing Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s, Alzheimer’s & dementia, Cameron, NHS, NHS Choices, dementia
NHS Choices has dampened enthusiasm over a report in medical journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia of a new test for Alzheimer’s …
Cameron’s antibiotics plan not enough
July 8, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, BBC, NHS, UK, david cameron, governement
UK prime minister David Cameron’s reaction to antibiotic resistance is not urgent enough and doctors are continuing to prescribe antibiotics …
Rise in diabetes ‘alarming’
July 7, 2014Sales and Marketing NHS, diabetes, nhs scotland, type 2
NHS Scotland has spent around £230 million on diabetes and obesity drugs in the past three years, according to data …
Unison warns of ‘dangerous’ £1 billion NHS tender
July 4, 2014Sales and Marketing CCG, England, NHS, commissioning, unison
A row is bubbling over the provision of health services in Staffordshire after a trade union accused four NHS clinical …
Doctors who miss cancer to be named and shamed
July 1, 2014Sales and Marketing Cancer, GPs, Hunt, NHS, UK, doctors, oncology
In a new government initiative doctors who consistently fail to diagnose signs of cancer could be publically named on an …
Government gets £74m rebate from pharma
June 30, 2014Sales and Marketing ABPI, Hunt, NHS, PPRS, VBP, emms, pricing
The UK government has received a £74 million refund from the pharma industry after it was deemed to have spent …
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