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BMA urges NHS focus in snap general election
pharmatimes
April 19, 2017
The British Medical Association is urging politicians to take on the NHS crisis in their pre-general election manifestos.
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‘Trail-blazing’ trusts to invest £70m in digital services
pharmatimes
April 14, 2017
NHS England has announced new funding for seven mental health trusts to enable them to ‘trail-blaze’ new digital services for mental health patients, in the hope of improving care.
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GP practices to get in-house pharmacists
pharmatimes
April 14, 2017
NHS England has announced that more GP practices across England are to get new, surgery-based clinical pharmacists to ...
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NHS head and neck cancer patients barred from Opdivo
pharmatimes
April 12, 2017
Cost regulators have ruled that Bristol-Myers Squibb’s immunotherapy Opdivo is too expensive for NHS use to treat head ...
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NHS England announces new Five Year Forward View
pharmaceutical-technology
April 06, 2017
NHS England has announced the new Five Year Forward View ‘Next Steps’ Plan to further improve cancer survival by an extra 5,000 people.
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NHS England plans cull of ‘low-value’ prescriptions
pharmatimes
March 29, 2017
“Low-value” prescriptions such as sun cream and gluten-free foods may soon no longer be available on the National Health Service in England, after NHS England announced a review into whether they should continue to be funded by the health service.
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NHS speeds up publication of hospital episode data
pharmatimes
March 27, 2017
The NHS has refined its processes for publishing Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), making the latest dataset available more than a month earlier than last year's equivalent.
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NHS trusts under growing pressure to make savings
pharmatimes
March 24, 2017
Trusts are grappling with growing pressure from the top to increase savings in the approaching financial year, a survey by NHS Providers has revealed.
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Gov’t plans to expand protection for NHS whistleblowers
pharmatimes
March 22, 2017
The government has launched a consultation on new proposals to expand protection for NHS whistleblowers.
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Research paper slams DeepMind/Royal Free NHS Trusts data deal
pharmatimes
March 20, 2017
A controversial deal between Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind and The Royal Free London NHS Foundation...