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Unison warns of ‘dangerous’ £1 billion NHS tender

July 4, 2014
Sales 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 …

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Doctors who miss cancer to be named and shamed

July 1, 2014
Sales 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 …

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Government gets £74m rebate from pharma

June 30, 2014
Sales 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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NICE U-turn on cancer drug despite price increase

June 27, 2014
Sales and Marketing Cancer, Glivec, NHS, Novartis, gists

UK pricing watchdog NICE has performed a U-turn on Glivec (imatinib) by issuing new draft guidance recommending the drug, despite …

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NICE recommends tenth diabetes drug

June 26, 2014
Sales and Marketing Janssen, NHS, diabetes, invokana, type 2

In final guidance NICE has recommended Janssen’s Invokana as a treatment to help lower blood sugar levels in people with …

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Review into NHS cover ups

June 25, 2014
Sales and Marketing CQC, Francis, Hunt, NHS, UK, robert, whistleblowing

Ministers have ordered a review into the whistleblowing culture within the NHS as it’s announced that 20% of hospitals have …

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Data authority chair calls for pharma transparency

June 24, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing HSCIC, NHS, care data, care.data, manning, transparency

 The chair of the UK’s national healthcare information provider says that government and industry have “a lot of work to …

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Lilly’s Efient tipped for expanded NICE approval

June 20, 2014
Sales and Marketing Effient, Efient, FDA, NHS, blood, lilly, longston, thinner

 Eli Lilly’s anti-platelet drug Efient has been given the nod by UK healthcare watchdog NICE for more widespread use, pending …

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ABPI president: NICE needs political reform

June 17, 2014
Business Services, Medical Communications, Research and Development ABPI, NHS, NICE, Pfizer, QALY, emms, jonathan, vba

NICE needs to be reformed with its QALY formula heavily revised if it is to meet the challenges of 21st …

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Knighthoods for Blakemore and Francis

June 17, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Francis, Mid Staffs, NHS, blakemore, mdc, queen

Two key figures in healthcare research and reform received knighthoods in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Professor Colin Blakemore, former head …

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NICE rejection looms for Sovaldi

June 16, 2014
Sales and Marketing Gilead, NHS, NICE, SMC, hep C, sofosbuvir, sovaldi

In a draft recommendation published today NICE is asking Gilead for more information on its new hepatitis C pill Sovaldi …

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NHS staff face prison

June 13, 2014
Sales and Marketing Francis, Mid Staffs, NHS, berwick, prison

The government is to create a new statutory criminal offence of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of patients, which could see …

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NICE recommends Yervoy

June 13, 2014
Sales and Marketing BMS, Cancer, Dillon, NHS, NICE, Yervoy, melanoma

Bristol-Myers Squibb has received a lift from the UK’s drugs watchdog, which has recommended its vaccine Yervoy as a first-line …

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Researchers question ‘bias’ NICE on statins

June 11, 2014
Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, Haslam, NHS, NICE, statins

Doctors are warning that NICE’s desire to increase prescriptions of statins in England is based on pharma-funded research that ignores …

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Andy Burnham: NHS needs a ‘reset’

June 6, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Hunt, NHS, burnham, confederation, reset

The NHS must be ‘reset’ in order to make it into a 21st century health service, according to shadow health …

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