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Government ups the ante on GP surveys

January 7, 2009
NHS, primary

Patients are to be surveyed more often in a government bid to further improve GP services. The survey has been …

Most acute NHS trusts independent from government

January 5, 2009
NHS

More than half of all acute NHS trusts have now been awarded foundation status, making them free to operate outside …

NHS 2008: Rejuvenating the 60 year-old service

December 31, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, collaborations, healthcare, industry relations, pharma

  A review of the NHS in 2008 NHS-pharma collaborations come of ageIn January, new guidelines were agreed to help NHS …

NHS to launch clinical data portal

December 17, 2008
Medical Communications NHS, NHS Evidence, NICE, digi, patients

The NHS is building an online portal to store drug information in one place.NHS Evidence will pool clinical data for …

PCT funding to set to rise

December 11, 2008
NHS, primary

NHS Primary Care Trusts are to receive funding worth £164 billion in the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11. This includes …

Cancer deaths in England down

December 3, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS

Cancer death rates in England have dropped and one-year survival rates are up, according to the Department of Health. But …

Not a ‘polyclinic’: Johnson opens the first GP-led health centre

December 3, 2008
NHS, reform

The first of a new generation of primary care centres has been opened in Bradford, which the government hopes will …

Government hopes World Class Commissioning can save money

November 27, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, primary

The government is looking to the NHS to produce huge new savings as part of its rescue package for the …

Frontline staff to have their say on NHS quality indicators

November 25, 2008
NHS, hc

Doctors and nurses are to decide on a series of quality indicators that will measure how well the NHS is …

Practice-based commissioning needs major overhaul

November 21, 2008
NHS, primary

A key NHS reform isn't working and requires a major overhaul, according to a new report by think tank The …

Managed Entry: creating a dialogue ahead of your launch

November 17, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, healthcare, managed entry, marketing, product launch

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking to 'managed entry' programmes to build strong relationships with NHS customers and ensure new products …

Government signs up supermarkets to help tackle obesity

November 14, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, obesity

More exercise and healthier eating are at the core of the government's new anti-obesity initiative, called Change4Life. Billed this week …

UK set for new flexible drug pricing, says Johnson

November 14, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, par

The government is working with the pharma industry on new 'flexible pricing' arrangements, even though revisions to the existing PPRS …

200m from prescribing budgets to pay pharmacists

November 13, 2008
NHS, primary

PCTs will have to make major and unplanned cuts to their drugs budgets and divert the money to shore up …

Pharma and NICE must end games of ‘one-upmanship’

November 10, 2008
Sales and Marketing NHS, par

Patient groups are calling on a pharmaceutical company to reach a compromise with NICE over a bone marrow cancer drug. …

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