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Health select committee chairman resigns
June 3, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Conservative, NHS, Stephen Dorrell, health secretary, lankly, reforms
The Conservative MP for Charnwood Stephen Dorrell who has chaired the health select committee since 2010, has resigned. The unexpected …
David Haslam: NICE, drug pricing and ethics
June 2, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Chairman, Dillon, NHS, NICE, adams, has lam
Since 2010, I have spent a great deal of time of writing about NICE, covering nearly all of all its …
Scrap ‘iniquitous and outdated’ NHS prescription charges
May 15, 2014Sales and Marketing BMJ, NHS, charges, dab, drugs, prescription
The NHS prescription charge is iniquitous and outdated and needs to be scrapped, according to an editorial in the Drug …
NICE: no early Zytiga use
May 14, 2014Sales and Marketing Cancer, Janssen, NHS, NICE, Zytiga, johnson, prostate
Janssen has criticised NICE’s decision not to recommend Zytiga on the NHS at an earlier stage in the prostate cancer …
Clinical trials transparency: the journey so far
May 12, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, alltrials, rawal, transparency
There has been considerable publicity over the last year or two about transparency of information in clinical trials. However, activity …
RPS: ‘Give pharma incentives’
May 8, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS, RPS, rare diseases, royal pharmaceutical society
Incentives are urgently required to speed up the development of personalised medicines, according to a new report from the Royal …
The doctor will Skype you now
April 30, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing CQC, NHS, Skype, babylon, digital, healthberry, parsa
A new smartphone app called Babylon is looking to give patients an ‘NHS in their pocket’ by allowing video consultations …
‘Transformational’ NHS social media tool launches
April 29, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, digital, healthberry, king, social media
London-based startup firm HealthBerry has developed a social media web and mobile application that is set to transform how the …
NHS documentary counts cost
April 25, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Channel 4, Drug pricing, NHS, PPRS, vba
The funding issues facing the NHS are to be explored in a new documentary series on Channel 4. Set to …
NICE rejects Kadcyla
April 23, 2014Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, Genentech, Kadcyla, NHS, NICE, Roche
NICE has delivered a severe blow to Roche by rejecting its breast cancer ‘smart bomb’ Kadcyla for NHS use in …
How can ‘innovation’ be defined?
April 14, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, NHS, UK, eric low, innovation, myeloma
Innovation has been and continues to be an important topic of discussion for a number of different stakeholders and disciplines …
Survey: free NHS in ‘jeopardy’
March 31, 2014Sales and Marketing Hunt, MPs, NHS, coalition, confederation
A survey commissioned by the NHS Confederation suggests that nearly half of UK MPs believe an NHS which is free …
Deepak Khanna: the legacy of an outgoing ABPI president
March 31, 2014Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Deepak Khanna, NHS, VBP, Whitehead, apbi, jonathan emms
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Deepak Khanna, the man who has overseen the activities of the ABPI for the …
Life sciences boost from government
March 31, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing DoH, NHS, UK, government, life sciences, medcity
The UK government is to launch an improved offering for the life sciences sector by combining the functions of the …
NICE launches VBA consultation
March 27, 2014Sales and Marketing Dillon, England, NHS, NICE, VBP, catchpole, pars, vba
NICE has today launched its consultation into how value-based assessment of drugs will work in practice, which will run for …
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