NHS System reform; a fundamental shift in power or cyclic change?
Last week saw the first hints of the new Health Secretary’s approach to an NHS increasingly used to setting its own agenda. Like so many other public services, political management of the…
NICE Draft Programme Manual – what’s missing?
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…
UK government publishes 10-year Life Sciences Vision
“Life Sciences will be one of the great drivers of growth in the twenty first century.” The first sentence of the foreword to the British Government’s new Life Sciences Vision…
The continuing rise of biosimilars in the UK
The entrance of biosimilar competitors into a therapeutic area is an ever-present concern for pharmaceutical companies managing ageing product portfolios. On the other hand, any potential benefit to patients and…
UK government publishes new draft data strategy
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…
Femtech – the way forward for women?
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.…
