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Diabetes injection

Sharp increase in NHS diabetes prescribing costs

August 25, 2011
Sales 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% …

News
Lord Howe

Taskforce to tackle £300m in wasted medicines

August 9, 2011
Sales 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 …

News

Dissent over patient involvement reforms

August 5, 2011
Medical 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 …

News

NHS must personalise services for long-term conditions

August 3, 2011
Sales and Marketing NHS, long term conditions

The government is highlighting a scheme in West Yorkshire as providing a way forward for reducing the cost burden on …

News

Prescription sales soar in England

July 29, 2011
Sales and Marketing NHS, prescribing

New data shows that prescription sales increased by more than two-thirds in England over the last decade, but a majority …

News
Sir John Oldham

A chronic problem for the health service

July 27, 2011
Sales and Marketing NHS, long term conditions

Sir John Oldham is not widely known outside the Department of Health, but he might just have the most difficult …

Feature

Health Bill ignores research, says charity

June 3, 2011
Cancer Research UK, NHS, trials

The Health and Social Care Bill has ignored the opportunity to place clinical research at the heart of the NHS, …

News

Digital Pharma: More painful progress for NHS electronic records

May 26, 2011
Medical Communications Digital Pharma blog, IT, NHS, electronic patient records

The NHS’ plans for electronic patient records are in tatters, dogged by missed deadlines, poor value for money and a …

News
Jim Easton

Pharma faces ‘trench warfare’ with NHS

May 26, 2011
Sales and Marketing Cost cutting, NHS, prescribing

The competing interests of the NHS and the pharma industry could end in trench warfare, a leading NHS figure has …

News

Lansley announces U-turn on cancer networks

May 23, 2011
Cancer, NHS, NHS reforms

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has declared that cancer networks will be maintained, reversing an earlier decision to axe them. Lansley …

News

Reforms may undermine NHS cost savings, say MPs

April 27, 2011
NHS, NHS reform, Public Accounts Comittee

Radical reforms to the NHS in England could undermine the drive to save £20 billion over the next four years. …

News
GP prescribing

GPs asked to squeeze drugs bill

April 14, 2011
Sales and Marketing AZ, GPs, NHS, NICE, prescribing

GPs are being asked not to prescribe NICE-approved drugs in order to cut costs.In the last year more than half …

News
NHS reforms Lansley Cameron Clegg

‘Listening exercise’ to re-shape NHS reforms

April 7, 2011
Health and Social Care Bill, NHS, NHS reform

The government has paused its reforms of the NHS and launched what it calls a ‘listening exercise’ to regain support …

News

NHS reforms caught in a ‘reality gap’ as dissent grows

March 31, 2011
Andrew Lansley, Liberating the NHS, NHS, NHS reform

The proposed NHS reforms are in danger of failing because of a ‘reality gap’ between the government’s ambitions for change …

News

Milburn adds his voice to growing disquiet on NHS reforms

March 30, 2011
Alan Milburn, NHS, NHS reforms

Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has come out against the government’s health reforms, adding to the chorus of voices …

News
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