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Insurance firms ‘will not be sold records’
March 3, 2014Sales and Marketing GPs, HSCIC, Hunt, NHS, care data, care.data
The government is to pledge that insurance companies will not be sold patients’ health records via the care.data information sharing …
Government questions innovation uptake by doctors
February 28, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, Hunt, NHS, PPRS, UK, doctors
The government has launched a consultation which aims to establish whether doctors are being held back from using innovative treatments, …
NICE rejects Alimta
February 28, 2014Sales and Marketing Alimta, Cancer, NHS, NICE, NSCLC, lilly, pemetrexed
Eli Lilly is coming to terms with rejection by NICE after the cost watchdog said it would not recommend Alimta …
MPs concerned about care.data
February 27, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Dorrell, HSCIC, MPs, NHS, UK, care data, care.data, data
MPs have expressed concerns about security in the delayed NHS care.data programme which will see medical information routinely swapped between …
Biotech industry failed by UK, says UCB
February 27, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cimzia, NHS, UCB, biotech, doliveux, tellier, vimpat
The UK biotechnology industry has ‘missed the boat’ and not fulfilled its potential, according to outgoing UCB chief executive Roch …
Mid Staffs to be ‘dissolved’
February 27, 2014Sales and Marketing Hunt, Mid Staffs, NHS, NHS England, tsas
The scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is to be dissolved, after health secretary Jeremy Hunt accepted the recommendation of …
NICE restricts Yervoy use
February 25, 2014Sales and Marketing BMS, Cancer, NHS, NICE, Yervoy, melanoma
Bristol-Myers Squibb has been dealt a blow by NICE after the UK cost watchdog recommended that the use of skin …
A treatment room view
February 24, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, NHS, NICE, Roche, avastin, hinsely
A little more than a year ago, Lisa Hinsley’s prospects were not good. The mother of three had been diagnosed …
NHS England delays patient data roll-out
February 19, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing England, HSCIC, NHS, care data, care.data, data, patients
The giant NHS database that could allow pharma firms to buy into patient records will now not be launched until …
NICE: new system will allow more drugs on NHS
February 17, 2014Sales and Marketing DH, Dillon, DoH, NHS, NICE, QALY
NICE has said that it will be able to approve more medicines under a new drug pricing policy, but warns …
Germany focus: strength with control
February 17, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AMNOG, EFPIA, Germany, IQWIG, NHS, NICE
Germany is the biggest pharmaceutical market in Europe and one of the biggest in the world, but new systems and …
Former M&S chief executive to headhunt for NHS
February 14, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Dalton, Hunt, NHS, stuart rose, superheads
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has appointed the man accredited with turning around the fortunes of Marks and Spencer to advise …
Doctors highlight NHS data concerns
February 13, 2014Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, RGCP, UK, care data, doctors
Senior doctors have voiced their worries about the public’s lack of preparedness for the government’s planned roll-out of patient data …
Kadcyla launches in UK
February 13, 2014Sales and Marketing CDF, Cancer, Kadcyla, NHS, Roche, breast
Roche’s Kadcyla, indicated to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer, has launched today in the UK.Kadcyla (trastuzumab emtansine) which …
NHS England savings ‘not used wisely’
February 12, 2014Sales and Marketing England, NHS, QIPP, Simon Stevens, health select
A group of influential MPs has raised serious concerns over what the £10 billion worth of NHS England savings made …
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