Tag Archives: UK

Cancer Testing Times: One Thing the UK Will Not Be Cutting

By Julian Upton | Published: October 27, 2010

Buried among the savage, £83 billion-worth of cuts announced by the UK coalition government’s controversial Comprehensive Spending Review last week was confirmation that the Department of Health would not be taking forward the previous government’s pledge to introduce a one-week target for cancer testing. Under the Labour government, the time that it took for a patient [...]

Posted in Europe, Global, Guest Blog | Also tagged Cancer, diagnostics, health economics, Oncology | Leave a comment

NICE Stats Spur Controversy and Back Patting

By Sarah Houlton | Published: September 23, 2009

The UK’s National Health Service has released its first statistics that show how NICE approval has affected medicines uptake in the UK. The NHS Information Centre’s Metrics Working Group looked at 26 medicines that the NICE has said should be reimbursed and how they were prescribed in 2008. It then compared the actual usage with [...]

Posted in Strategy | Also tagged Alzheimer's disease, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, Breast cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, National Health Service, Neurological Disorders | Leave a comment

UK Animal Tests on the Rise

By Sarah Houlton | Published: September 2, 2009

Image by epicnom via Flickr Latest government figures show a big rise in the number of animal experiments, but this is underpinned by an increase in investment in research The number of animal experiments carried out in the UK last year topped 3.5 million, representing a 14 percent increase on the year before. However, industry claims this [...]

Posted in Global, R&D | Also tagged Animal Experiments - Vivisection, Animal testing, Animal welfare, Interest group, Test method | Leave a comment