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Doctors decry cost-cutting in HIV treatment
November 2, 2011Sales and Marketing HIV, NHS, Reyataz
Doctors in London are opposing a decision to switch HIV patients to a cheaper drug, saying it could harm patients. …
Shadow Commissioning Board goes live
October 31, 2011Medical Communications Commissioning Board, DH, NHS
The NHS Commissioning Board, the new central and powerful committee that will co-ordinate the health service in England, has been …
Reforms raise conflicts of interest, say GPs
October 25, 2011Sales and Marketing BMA, NHS, NHS reforms
Two-thirds of doctors believe that the government’s health reforms will create conflicts of interests in their jobs and undermine their …
UK research cannot rest on its laurels, warns ABPI
October 21, 2011Medical Communications, Research and Development ABPI, NHS, R&D
The ABPI has warned that the UK must continue to attract investment for research, or risk being superseded by emerging …
Grant nominated for key NHS Commissioning Board post
October 18, 2011Commissioning Board, Malcolm Grant, NHS, Nicholson
The government has named its choice for one of the key roles at the new NHS Commissioning Board. Professor Malcolm …
Charities support new electronic patient records
October 12, 2011Sales and Marketing IT, NHS, electronic patient records
The troubled project to launch an NHS-wide electronic patient record system has received new support from patient groups.The Summary Care …
‘Paralysis’ in NHS if reforms passed
October 11, 2011Andrew Lansley, Health and Social Care Bill, Mike Farrar, NHS
A prominent NHS leader has warned the government’s reforms are unworkable in their current form. NHS Confederation chief executive Mike …
NHS chiefs call for more honesty about service cuts
October 10, 2011NHS, NHS reforms
The NHS Confederation has called on the government to be more open about cuts to the health service. The government …
Digital Pharma: NHS-backed health social network launches
October 3, 2011Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, NHS, social media
A new NHS-backed social network has launched to provide support to patients with long-term conditions through ‘personal health planning’. How …
Government bites the bullet over A&E closure
September 14, 2011NHS, NHS reform, hosptials
The government has backed the closure of the Accident and Emergency department at Chase Farm hospital in London, ending years …
Battle over health reform begins again
September 7, 2011Health and Social Care Bill, NHS, NHS reforms
The battle over the future of the NHS has began again as the Health and Social Care Bill yesterday returned …
Market access and the new NHS in England
August 25, 2011Sales and Marketing NHS, NHS reforms
The National Health Service in England is undergoing massive structural and financial upheaval, and pharma marketers will be rightly concerned …
Sharp increase in NHS diabetes prescribing costs
August 25, 2011Sales and Marketing GP prescribing, NHS, diabetes, prescribing
NHS prescribing for diabetes has risen sharply, largely driven by the disease’s growing prevalence in the UK. Spending rose 41% …
Taskforce to tackle £300m in wasted medicines
August 9, 2011Sales and Marketing Lord Howe, NHS, medinces management
A task force has been set up to tackle medicine wastage in the NHS – a problem which, the government …
Dissent over patient involvement reforms
August 5, 2011Medical Communications HealthWatch, NHS, patient involvement
The first 75 ‘pathfinders’ have been named in Local HealthWatch, the patient representative organisations due to replace the current local …
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