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February 02, 2012
Pharmacy wholesaling and dispensing activities need to be legally separated, so that pharmacies who serve NHS patients directly prioritise the UK patient over and above wholesaling activities which effectively divert medicine supplies, MPs have been told
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February 02, 2012
Competition can help the integration of care in the NHS, and there is no evidence that it would hamper it, says a new report from the Office of Health Economics
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February 02, 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has issued new draft guidance not recommending the use of Janssen's Zytiga (abiraterone) for prostate cancer
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January 31, 2012
The editors of three leading healthcare publications warn today that the NHS will need another overhaul in five years, and call for a public debate on its future to "salvage some good" from the government's "damaging" reforms.
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January 31, 2012
The UK's world-renowned dementia knowledge base could be lost unless scientists have better opportunities to enter and remain in the field, the government has been warned.
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January 31, 2012
The government has announced plans for a new focus on improving health care for children and young people.
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January 26, 2012
NICE has issued final guidance recommending Roche's MabThera as an option when used in combination with a wide range of chemotherapy treatments for advanced follicular lymphoma.
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January 26, 2012
NICE has issued final guidance not recommending the use of Roche's Avastin, Merck Serono's Erbitux or Amgen's Vectibix for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed after first-line chemotherapy.
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January 26, 2012
UK patients should be able to benefit from genomic technology which can improve the NHS' understanding of the nature of disease and allow treatment to be tailored to patients' individual genetic make-up, Ministers have been told.
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January 24, 2012
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson's challenge to the Service to find efficiency savings totalling £20 billion by 2015 is more important than management change, says the House of Commons Health Committee.