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ABPI worried about Prolia use

March 10, 2014
Sales and Marketing ABPI, Amgen, NHS, Xgeva

The ABPI has once again voiced concern that NHS patients in some areas of England are not getting access to …

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First payments made under PPRS scheme

March 7, 2014
Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, abp. pars, government

The first payments in pharma’s new pricing deal with the Department of Health are to be made this month as …

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Smartphone tech to help autism sufferers commended

March 6, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, asperger's, aspergers, autism, brain in hand, cloud, digital

Smartphone technology which helps people with autism to live more easily with their condition has been commended as part of …

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NICE U-turn on Pfizer drug Inlyta

March 5, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Kidney cancer, NHS, NICE, Pfizer, axitinib, inlyta

NICE has recommended that Pfizer’s kidney cancer drug Inlyta should be used for some patients in England, following a similar …

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Insurance firms ‘will not be sold records’

March 3, 2014
Sales 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 …

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Government questions innovation uptake by doctors

February 28, 2014
Medical 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, …

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NICE rejects Alimta

February 28, 2014
Sales 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, 2014
Medical 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, 2014
Research 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 …

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Mid Staffs to be ‘dissolved’

February 27, 2014
Sales 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 …

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NICE restricts Yervoy use

February 25, 2014
Sales 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 …

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A treatment room view

February 24, 2014
Manufacturing 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, 2014
Medical 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, 2014
Sales 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 …

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Germany focus: strength with control

February 17, 2014
Manufacturing 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 …

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