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NHS patient data and clinical research – coming together at last?
January 28, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Les Rose, NHS, R&D, clinical, records, transparency
In the mid-1990s, an NHS teaching hospital close to my offices invited proposals for expanding its clinical trials unit. Hitherto …
MPs: ‘get on with VBP’
January 18, 2013Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, PPRS, VBP
An influential group of MPs has hit out at inactivity over moves towards value-based pricing (VBP), saying that the issue …
The price of innovation
January 16, 2013Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, NICE, Rose, VBP
One of the strange paradoxes of our industry is that we have a very large number of new medicines in …
Public health budget ring-fenced
January 11, 2013Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, government
Local authorities are to receive a total of £5.45 billion from the government over the next two years to spend …
£120m health research boost
January 10, 2013Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, NIHR, TXA
The Department of Health is putting £120 million of new funding into health research over the next five years in …
CQC ‘needs urgent overhaul’, say MPs
January 9, 2013Sales and Marketing CQQ, Dorrell, NHS, select committee
England’s health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), must overhaul its governance structures ‘as a matter of …
DH digital strategy released
December 21, 2012Medical Communications DH, NHS, digital
The Department of Health has signalled its desire to make a splash in the digital pond with the release of …
NHS blueprint under fire
December 20, 2012Sales and Marketing CB, CCGs, Labour, NHS
The NHS Commissioning Board’s blueprint for care has promised extra funds for health providers and greater transparency for patients. Board …
Mixed response to ‘seven-day’ NHS
December 20, 2012Sales and Marketing BMA, CCGs, NHS, RCP
The NHS’s possible move to seven-day working has received a mixed welcome, with the BMA dubbing the proposals ‘too crude’. …
NICE publishes formulary guidance
December 19, 2012Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, NICE, formularies, formulary
NICE has published its first guidance on good practice for those involved in working out what medicines should be made …
Reports back doctor contract changes
December 18, 2012Sales and Marketing BMA, DDRB, NHS, doctors, reform
The government looks to be heading towards a showdown with clinician groups over proposed changes to doctors’ contracts. It has …
Hold tight: a bumpy ride ahead for the NHS
December 13, 2012Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Hunt, Lansley, NHS, Wallards, reforms
The Wellards Annual Conference is an event where two worlds – the industry and the NHS – meet for a …
First CCGs get green light
December 11, 2012Sales and Marketing CB, CCGs, Hunt, Lansley, NHS
In a landmark development for the controversial Health and Social Care Act, the first clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have taken …
Growth in GP drug prescriptions
December 11, 2012Sales and Marketing GPs, NHS, UK, doctors, prescribing
The volume of GP-prescribed drugs grew by an annual average of 8.4% in the years 1995-2010, according to new government …
Add value, pharma urged
December 7, 2012Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing ABPI, CCGs, NHS, Pharmafocus, Prescriber
Pharma will only form lasting relationships with the NHS in future by demonstrating its value, according to Kevin Blakemore, NHS …
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