All Pharma articles – Page 44
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NHS Confederation calls for debate on top ups
The NHS Confederation has called for a debate on whether patients who use private treatment should be excluded from NHS care.
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Drugs' benefits go further than the patient
The vertiginous rise in mental health costs predicted in a King's Fund report this week should trigger debate about which drugs are approved for use.
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Pharmacy law changes to go ahead
The government is to press ahead with changes to the law governing safety in pharmacies.
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Michael White on NICE decisions
Did you hear Ian Gibson, left wing MP for Norwich North, giving Gordon Brown a piece of his mind in the wake of Labour's disastrous performance in the local elections?
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Drug treatment improving says Healthcare Commission
More people with drug problems are receiving treatment and their care is improving, a report by the Healthcare Commission and the National Treatment Agencyhas found.The number of people receiving specialist drug treatment increased from 85,000 in 1998-99 to 195,400 in 2006-07.
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Pharmaceutical industry welcomes NICE ruling
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence decisions may be subject to greater scrutiny following yesterday's Court of Appeal ruling over Alzheimer's drugs.
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PCTs that venture into NICE's territory face dangers
The move by public health directors to play a lead role in advising on new treatments puts primary care trusts squarely on territory that was previously dominated by NICE.
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Scotland settles drug price-fixing claim
Scottish ministers and health boards have settled a civil claim against a pharmaceutical company for allegedly fixing the price the NHS is charged for drugs with other pharmaceutical companies.
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European Commission warned over drug promotion
Prescribing budgets could come under pressure as a result of European Commission proposals to let drug companies provide information directly to patients.
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DH heralds bigger role for pharmacies
The Department of Health is to draw up plans for primary care trusts to commission more services from pharmacists.
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Extended role for pharmacists 'sensible'
The NHS Alliance has described the government's announcement of an enhanced role for high street pharmacists as 'eminently sensible' and rejected criticisms that the policy will lead to pharmacists replacing GPs.
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All or nothing: patients are told no to private top-ups
Patients who choose to buy drugs that the NHS will not fund are being told they will have to pay for all their treatment - not just that part. Should trusts relent and offer mix-and-match packages of care, or would that mean a two-tier service? Alison Moore reports
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Generic drugs could save PCTs £200m
Primary care trusts should do more to encourage GPs to prescribe cheaper generic drugs, the public accounts committee has said.
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NICE could rate all drugs for extra £1m a year
Proposals to extend the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence would cost just £1m extra a year, or 3.5 per cent of its budget, its chief executive Andrew Dillon has estimated.
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top up reversal
TheLondonspecialist commissioning group has reversed its decision to deny six hospitals tops ups for their specialist spinal surgery. The move brings the total number ofLondonhospitals eligible for top ups above the payment by results tariff for specialist spinal work from two to eight. The strategic health authority-based SCG’s decision follows ...
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'Top up' fees not 'equitable' funding system
The Doctors for Reform study published yesterday argues - through the use of only 20 case studies - that more patients are paying 'top-up' fees and that 'the fundamental NHS principle - that care should be universally and equitably available ' no longer applies'.