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Campaigners challenge NHS England’s latest plan to share patient data

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People can opt out of the scheme by filling in a form and taking it to their GP before 23 June, but campaigners say this has not been communicated effectively. The government’s last attempt to shake up patient data-sharing – 2013’s Care.data scheme – suffered from a number of false starts and was eventually shut down in 2016.

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A backpack full of multiple sclerosis therapy

World Pharma News

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that destroys the protective myelin covering around nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body, and causing patients' ability to move and function to progressively decline. Alarmingly, since 2013, the world-wide prevalence of MS has risen by 30%.

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Brand Name Search

RX Note

However, with the proliferation of biosimilars and liposomal or pegylated forms, health care professionals are now encouraged to communicate using product name for certain circumstances (e.g. Few years back, doctors are urged to prescribe drugs by active ingredients.

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Creative agency woolley pau regains independence after buyout

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Shorthose, Christian Dawson and Dean Woolley bought out the agency, which was had previously been acquired by healthcare communications company gyro in 2007 and then in 2016 by digital marketing company Dentsu Aegis Network. Ed Shorthose, managing director, said the move “felt right on every level”.

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Health Innovators: Healios’ Richard Andrews

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In 2013, he founded Healios to tackle the global inequality of healthcare provision affecting over one billion people worldwide with mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. Prior to this, he founded pharmaphorum in 2009, which was acquired by Healthware Group in June 2020.

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NHS Digital, NHSX will be absorbed into NHS England

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NHS Digital has been around rather longer – since 2013 – but has come under fire in the last few months over its controversial data sharing plan, which was placed on hold in the summer after more than a million people opted out of the scheme in the space of a few weeks.

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Are We Moving On From Covid?

Eye on FDA

In a recent blog posting, I looked back at the profile of FDA press releases over the period 2013-2021 (See What They Said 2021 – An Overview of FDA Press Statements ). Looking at it on a month by month basis, you get a real impression of how much oxygen COVID-19 took of FDA’s communications. Why is this important?