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Nicholas Timmins

Drug groups urged to cut NHS prices

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12 hrs ago 4 related
        

By Andrew Jack and Nicholas Timmins Pharmaceutical companies are being pushed by the government to offer lower initial prices for new drugs on the understanding that the NHS will pay more if later evidence proves greater...

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Cancer drugs charge move 'bizarre'

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24-Sep-2008 5 related
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Health economists and opposition politicians on Wednesday expressed bemusement at Gordon Brown’s decision to exempt cancer sufferers from prescription charges when patients are...

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Pledges on child poverty and cancer

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23-Sep-2008
        

PM's pledges ranged from a potentially hugely expensive – but decidedly long-term – move on child poverty, to smaller and more populist measures that departments insisted were at least technically already paid for within...

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Electronic medical records a step closer

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19-Sep-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor A national electronic record of patients’ health looks finally on the cards – five years late – after the NHS IT programme on Thursday changed the way patients will give their...

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Row over defining patient income

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10-Sep-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor A judicial review of the way the government’s flagship National Health Service foundation trusts calculate private patient income looked inevitable on Tuesday as a consultation...

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Drug fund lottery for rare cancers

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11-Aug-2008 30 related
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Some 800 patients a year are being refused funding for drugs that can tackle - but not cure - rare or advanced cancers, according to a survey by the Rarer Cancers Forum, a patient...

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Drug ruling prompts calls to cut prices

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08-Aug-2008 55 related
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Pressure on pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of life-extending cancer drugs was ramped up on Thursday after Nice, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, rejected...

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Private hospitals follow NHS 'quality' move

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29-Jul-2008
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Private hospitals will have to publish an annual “quality” report outlining how their patients have fared, David Nicholson, the National Health Service chief executive, has disclosed....

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Pension schemes at risk, warns minister

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25-Jul-2008 2 related
        

By Nicholas Timmins, Public Policy Editor Moves to measure company pension liabilities at a “risk free” rate threaten to lead to another round of final salary pension scheme closures, Mike O’Brien, the pensions minister, has...

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Joint initiative aims to combat obesity

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24-Jul-2008
        

By Jenny Wiggins and Nicholas Timmins Food and advertising companies are joining forces with the government to launch the biggest anti-obesity ­marketing campaign seen in Britain, in a move intended to project a more proactive,...

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