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Medical advisory body “NICE” should not spend too much time valuing drugs.
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE”) is currently holding a public consultation over its proposals for evaluating drugs. Drugs that are approved by NICE automatically become available for doctors to prescribe under the NHS throughout England … Continue reading
Posted in Business, CCGs, Commissioning, Department of Health, Drugs, Elderly, equality, Genetics, GPs, Health and Wellbeing, Health Bill, Health reform, Inequality, Innovation, Jeremy Hunt, NHS, NHS reforms, Patients, Pharma, Policy, Public Health, Research, Technology, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
Tagged 2020health, Clinical Commissioning Group, Commissioning, Department of Health, dose, elderly, General practitioner, government, GP, GPs, health, Health Bill, innovation, Jeremy Hunt, medicine, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, MHRA, National Health Service, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NHS, NICE, Old age, patient, Patients, pharmaceutical, PPRS, pricing, Proportionate QALY, Public Health, QALY, R&D, Research, value-based, value-based pricing
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Guest Blogspot: Waiting for Decisions on UK Pharmaceutical Pricing
Little has been heard over how confidential talks between the Government and the pharmaceutical industry are progressing towards the goal of having a new, voluntary UK drug pricing system in place in 2014. In the eyes of the pharmaceutical companies … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Lansley, Business, Children, Commissioning, David Cameron, Department of Health, Drugs, Emerging technologies, equality, Health and Wellbeing, Innovation, Jeremy Hunt, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
Tagged 2020health, Andrew Lansley, Bowel Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Drugs, government, innovation, medicine, Multiple Sclerosis Society, pharmaceutical, R&D, value-based, value-based pricing
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Guest Blogspot: Misleading, Biased Reporting on the Health and Social Care Bill in the Media
Above all the freedom of the Press is paramount. Censorship or severely restrictive legislation is not an acceptable alternative. We sometimes have to accept the consequences and tolerate a Press that can be wrong, unfair, misleading or more interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Lansley, competition, David Cameron, Department of Health, equality, Finance, Health Bill, Hospitals, Inequality, NHS, Patients, Private
Tagged 2020health, Andrew Burnham, Andrew lansley, Andy Burnham, BBC, Biased reporting, competition, David Cameron, Department of Health, Freedom of the Press, government, Health Bill, hospital beds, journalists, Labour Party, Misleading reporting, National Health Service, NHS, non-NHS income, non-NHS work, patient, Patients, Press, private income cap, private patients, Shirley Williams, theatre time, waiting times
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Health news headlines over the weekend
By: Alicia Snushall, 2020health.org The major topic on everyone’s tongue is the massive public service strike set to take place Wednesday. The Department of Health estimates that approximately 260,000 NHS workers will go on strike this week, affecting 57,000 patients. … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, equality, Information
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Innovation and the Health Bill
The success of the North West Exemplar Programme was hailed last week for the NHS being among the best in Europe for Pharmaceutical research. Its aim has been to create ‘new capacity and capability for research in the UK’. This … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Lansley, equality, NHS
Tagged health and social care bill 2011, Innovation and NHS
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