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E-prescribing ‘patchy at best’

November 22, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing DoH, NHS, UCL, e-prescribing

Electronic prescribing in NHS hospitals – seen as one of the cornerstones of public health provision in the future – …

News
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Coalition launches rare disease strategy

November 22, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing DoH, NHS, R&D, rare disease

The Department of Health has launched the UK’s first strategy on rare diseases as part of a bid to boost …

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NHS responds to Mid Staffs

November 21, 2013
Sales and Marketing Francis, Mid Staffs, NHS, UK

The government has accepted 281 out of the 290 recommendations contained in the Francis report – the damning document published …

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Healthcare UK appoints medical director

November 20, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NHS, healthcare uk

Professor Rory Shaw has been hired as the medical director of Healthcare UK to lead the newly-established NHS International Development …

Appointment
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Charge more for prescriptions in England, say Reform

November 19, 2013
Sales and Marketing GP, NHS, UK, doctors, prescriptions, reform

Increase prescriptions to £10 and charge the same amount to see a GP if you want to help the NHS …

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NICE tells pharma: don’t blame us for rejections

November 18, 2013
Sales and Marketing Dillon, NHS, NICE, VBP

The head of NICE has publicly defended his agency against more pharma criticism but admits that it can make changes …

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Is the NHS in safe hands?

November 18, 2013
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Hunt, Lansley, McConaghie, NHS

A total of 16 months have passed since Jeremy Hunt took over as health secretary from Andrew Lansley, and in …

Feature

‘Old fashioned’ doctors in new GP contract

November 15, 2013
Sales and Marketing BMA, GP, Hunt, Labour, NHS, UK, doctors

The government is changing GPs’ contract with the NHS in a bid to “bring back old-fashioned family doctors” who will …

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NHS Confederation hires new chief executive and deputy chair

November 12, 2013
Sales and Marketing Mike Farrar, NHS, NHS Confederation, Rob webster, cash

The NHS Confederation has confirmed that Rob Webster is to succeed Mike Farrar as its new chief executive, as it …

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NICE needs more Velcade data

November 12, 2013
Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, Velcade, eric low

NICE has slowed the progress of Janssen Cilag’s Velcade towards becoming an NHS treatment for multiple myeloma by asking the …

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PPRS: thumbs-down from pharma

November 7, 2013
Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS, PPRS, Pfizer, VBP

A missed opportunity for patients, which creates financial problems for smaller companies while stifling life science investment – these are …

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PPRS to remain in UK, but drug growth curbed

November 6, 2013
Sales and Marketing ABPI, DH, Deepak Khanna, NHS, PPRS

The UK government has announced that the PPRS pricing scheme will largely remain intact, but will have a curb put …

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NICE ‘yes’ for Jetrea

October 23, 2013
Sales and Marketing Jetrea, NHS, NICE, eye

Jetrea has completed its seemingly inexorable journey to NHS use in England and Wales for a rare eye condition following …

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Astellas gets NICE nod

October 18, 2013
Sales and Marketing Cancer, NHS, NICE, Xtandi

Astellas Pharma’s new prostate cancer drug Xtandi which has been shown to shrink and kill cancer cells, has been recommended …

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Patients should ‘top up’ NHS costs

October 16, 2013
Sales and Marketing Dixon, England, NHS, NICE, top up

A leading doctor believes that NHS patients must produce top up payments for treatments for non-life threatening conditions. Speaking at …

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