A step in the right direction This week the UK government published its first ever Women’s Health Strategy. The ambition to tackle the gender health gap, which results in women…

As absolutely no one has failed to notice, the coronavirus pandemic has injected new energy into the digital transformation agenda. Incoming NHS Transformation Director Tim Ferris has continued to focus…

On 29th June, A plan for digital health and social care was released by the Department of Health and Social Care. The goal of the plan is to create a…

At Newmarket Strategy, we work with a range of NHS organisations, partners, and suppliers on the elective recovery challenge. As the NHS approaches its first delivery milestone (eradicating >104wk waits)…

Patient and public involvement and engagement means that “activities and research are carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public or patients, rather than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them”[1].…

NICE’s 187-page draft programme manual, published today for consultation, has more than enough by way of reform to HTA methods and processes for any market access aficionado to get their…

The government has this week published the long-awaited draft data strategy: Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data. This new strategy builds upon previous attemptsto harness the NHS’s rich store of patient…

At the beginning of April, many European nations halted their vaccination programme in fears that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine increased the recipient’s chances of developing severe and deadly blood clots.…

First in a series of articles considering the implications of NICE’s changing role for industry and patients.  NICE’s role and remit has grown and morphed over its twenty plus year…