Tag Archives: Reducing Waste in the NHS

More on the NHS Long Term Plan (DHSC / NHS England / BBC News / NAO)

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS Long Term Plan was released earlier this week. The plan is backed by the commitment of an extra £20.5 billion funding for the NHS per year. “The 10-year plan includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes … Continue reading →

Prevention: Central to the NHS Long Term Plan (BBC News / NHS Egland)

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Early announcements concerning the NHS Long Term Plan, previously billed as the “NHS Ten Year Plan”, indicate an even greater emphasis on the prevention agenda. This will involve, among other related schemes, the provision for problem drinkers and smokers … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Personal Health Records Online, Access to Primary Care, Ageing Population, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Consumption, Alcohol Care Teams, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Drugs and Tobacco, Alcohol Misuse, Alcohol or Tobacco Withdrawal, Alcohol-Related Activity in Hospitals, Alcohol-Related Admissions to Hospital, Alcohol-Related Burden on the NHS, Alcohol-Related Harm, BBC Health News, Benefits of Detection and Early Intervention, Benefits of Early Detection, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Childhood Obesity, Choice and Control, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Community Resilience, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Control and Independence, Deborah Arnott: Chief Executive of ASH (Health Charity), Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Diabetes, Diabetes Prevention, Diet, Diet and Exercise, Diet-Related Ill Health, Dietary Risk Factors, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Innovation, Digital Innovations in Health, Digital Service Transformation, Digital Services, Digital Services for Patients, Digital Technology and Innovation, Duncan Selbie: Chief Executive of Public Health England, Early Detection of Disease, Early Detection of Preclinical Disease, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Electronic Care Record (ECR), Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Electronic Patient Record Systems, Health Information Technology, Health Innovation, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Hospital Stays for Alcohol-Related Harm (Adults’ Health and Lifestyle), Information Technology, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Informed Decision-Making, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Long-Term Funding Settlement for NHS, Maternal Health and Wellbeing, Maternal Mental Health, Maternity Services, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, National Childhood Obesity Strategy, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long-Term Plan, NHS Sustainability, NHS Ten Year Plan, NHS Workforce, Optimising Benefits of Digital Technology, Optimising Patient Outcomes Using Digital Technology, Optimising Use of Digital Technology, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Budgets for Older People, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention and Self Care, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Professor Andrew Goddard: President of Royal College of Physicians, Recruitment, Recruitment and Retention, Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Prime Minster), Self-Care, Self-Determination, Self-Management Support, Service User Involvement, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Specialist Alcohol Care Teams Trials, Support for Self-Care, Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Sustainability, Theresa May's Mental Health Reforms, Tobacco, Tobacco Advisory Group: Royal College of Physicians, Tobacco Consumption, Tobacco Dependency, Tobacco Smoking, Transformational Technologies, Transformative Health Technology, Transformative Technology, Treating Patients Closer to Home, UK Cancer Survival Rates, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Use of Technology to Predict Illnesses and Target Advice, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues | Leave a comment

Renewed Policy Emphasis on Social Prescribing and Arts Therapies? (DHSC / Cochrane Database / JGCR / Dementia)

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Matt Hancock, Health and Social Care Secretary, takes a positive view of social prescribing, including greater use the arts and social activities as means of enhancing health and wellbeing. “…we will create a National Academy for Social Prescribing to … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences: University of Leeds, Ageing Population, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Alchemy Project (Lambeth), All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts Health and Wellbeing, ALOIS: a Comprehensive Register of Dementia Studies, ALOIS: Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement's Specialized Register, American Psychiatric Association (APA), Art Therapists, Art Therapy, Arts and Dementia Research: Hermeneutics, Arts and Dementia Research: Methodological Challenges, Arts and Dementia Research: Phenomenological Issues, Arts and Mental Wellbeing, Arts and Music in Dementia, Arts and Social Activities, Arts Council, Arts for Health, Arts for Health Activities in Care Homes, Arts in Health, Arts Practices in Healthcare, Arts Therapies, Association Between Physical Exercise and Mental Health, Association for Dementia Studies: University of Worcester, British Association of Art Therapists, Canada, Care Homes, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Cochrane Database, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group (CDCIG), Committee on Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and Their Caregivers: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Community Classes, Complex Interventions, Complex Interventions (Arts-Based Activities for People With Dementia), Complexity, Creative Health: the Arts for Health and Wellbeing, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing (National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing), Cultural Manifesto for Wellbeing, Dance for Psychosis, DCMS, Dementia (Journal), Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology: University of Nottingham, Edge Hill University, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Epistemology, Epistemology Relating to Research Methodologies, Evaluation of Arts-Based Interventions, Evaluation of Complex Interventions, Evidence: Hierarchies and Typologies, Healthy Diet, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyles, Hierarchies of Evidence (Reappraised), Informed Choices, Informed Decision-Making, Institute of Mental Health: University of Nottingham, Intrinsic Value Versus Instrumental Value, Japan, Jeremy Wright: Culture Secretary, Journal of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Leeds Institute of Health Sciences: University of Leeds, Life-Long Learning, Lifelong Learning, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Meaning: Communication and Interpretation, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Methodological Challenges, Methodological Challenges in Arts and Dementia Research, Museums, Music Playlists for Persons With Dementia, National Academies Press (US), National Academy for Social Prescribing, National Academy for Social Prescribing (Proposed Formation), National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (Japan), Nordoff Robbins: Music Therapy Charity, Nutritional Advice, Older Adults, Over-Medicalisation (Speculative Concept), Over-Medication, Participation in Social Activities, Physical Exercise, Physical Exercise Programmes, Playlist for Life, Post-Stroke Recovery, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Psychological Wellbeing, Qualitative Research, Quality of Life, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Hull’s Stroke Recovery Service, RSPH First International Research Conference on the Arts and Dementia, Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, School of Medicine: University of Nottingham, Self-Care, Self-Care Programmes, Singing for Chronic Lung Conditions, Social Activities, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing: Fundamental to Prevention, Societal Determinants of Health, Southbank Centre, Staying Healthy for Longer, Stroke Recovery Service (Hull), Support for Self-Care, Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, TAnDem (The Arts and Dementia) Doctoral Training Centre, TAnDem Doctoral Training Centre, Tolerance of Ambiguity, United States: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, University of Leeds, University of Nottingham, University of Worcester, Wasted Resources, Wellbeing | Leave a comment

NHS Focus Back on the Prevention Agenda (BBC News / DHSC / NHS England)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The right public health measures and better self-care, duly implemented and resourced, might enable people to have five more years of healthy independent life by 2035. “In the UK, we are spending £97 billion of public money on treating … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Ageing Population, Ageing Society Grand Challenge, Ageing Society Grand Challenge Fund, Air Pollution, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Consumption, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Misuse, Art Therapy, Autumn Budget (2018), Broad Determinants of Health, Childhood Obesity, Community Resilience, Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, Cost-Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions, Cultural Manifesto for Wellbeing, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Diabetes, Diabetes Prevention, Diet, Diet and Exercise, Diet-Related Ill Health, Dietary Risk Factors, Economic Sustainability, Five Ways to Mental Wellbeing, Five Ways to Wellbeing, Health and Housing, Health Inequalities, Health Survey for England (HSE), Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Eating, Healthy Life Expectancy, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Lifestyles and Public Health Programmes, Improving Local Public Health, Inequalities in Life Expectancy, Informed Choices, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Informed Decision-Making, Integrated Prevention Approaches, International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI), Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy Gaps, Life Expectancy: Inequalities, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Academy for Social Prescribing, National Academy for Social Prescribing (Proposed Formation), National Childhood Obesity Strategy, NHS Sustainability, Nordoff Robbins: Music Therapy Charity, Norfolk’s Healthy Libraries Initiative, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention and Self Care, Prevention Better Than Cure: Department of Health (2018), Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Public Health Investment, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Self-Care, Self-Determination, Self-Management Support, Service User Involvement, Social Determinants of Health, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing: UK, Societal Determinants of Health, Staying Healthy for Longer, Sugar Reduction, Support for Self-Care, Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Sustainability, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Use of Technology to Predict Illnesses and Target Advice, Vaccination Programmes, Wider Determinants of Health | Leave a comment

Outline National Strategy for Information Technology in Health and Care (DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / NIHR)

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Matt Hancock, Health and Social Care Secretary, has announced the latest vision for IT modernisation in the NHS, This will involve moving applications / data to cloud-based services, and technical standards which will allow NHS IT systems to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 18 Week Wait and Patient Access, Accelerating Innovation, Access to Personal Health Records Online, Access to Primary Care, Access to Self-Collected Lifestyle Data From NHS apps or Fitness Trackers, Access to Transformative Health Technology, Acute Global Digital Exemplars, Adoption of Innovations, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society Grand Challenge Fund, AI and Data Grand Challenge, Alliance Manchester Business School: University of Manchester, Applications of Big Data, Apps, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bangor University, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Berkshire West ICS, Best Technology (Procurement), Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Capacity Tracker, Care at Home, CERA, Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Cloud-Based Services, CMOC: Context–Mechanism–Outcome Configuration, Collaboration and Co-Development, College of Health and Behavioural Sciences: Bangor University, Connecting Care for Children (CC4C), Cyber Security, Cyber Security Standards, Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti’s Ideas re: Data Trusts to Facilitate Ethical Sharing of Data Between Organisations, Dan Sheldon: Head of Digital at Well Pharmacy, Daniel Korski CBE: Co-Founder and CEO of PUBLIC, Data and Digital Health, Data Interoperability, Data Safeguarding, Data Sharing, David Gann: Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at Imperial College London, Digital Awareness, Digital Change in Health and Social Care, Digital Health, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Innovation, Digital Innovations in Health, Digital Interoperability, Digital Maturity, Digital Maturity Assessments, Digital Maturity Index, Digital Maturity Models, Digital NHS, Digital Service Transformation, Digital Services, Digital Services for Patients, Digital Skills, Digital Skills of NHS Workforce, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Dr Ben Goldacre: Chair of Healthtech Advisory Board, Dr Ben Goldacre: DataLab at University of Oxford, Dr Ben Goldacre: Healthtech Advisory Board, Dr Simon Eccles: Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care at NHS England, DyNADS: Dynamic Network Analysis Decision Support Tool, e-roster: Electronic Rostering System, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, eCAT: Electronic Caseload Analysis Tool, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Electronic Care Record (ECR), Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Electronic Patient Record Systems, Electronic Rostering Systems, Encouraging Innovation, Establishment Genie Tool, Ethical Sharing of Data Between Organisations, Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR), FIDO, Funding and Efficiency, Funding and Efficiency Gap, GDEs: Global Digital Exemplars, GDPR, Genomic Medicine, Genomic Technologies, Genomics, Genomics and Personalised Medicine, Global Digital Exemplars, Global Digital Exemplars for Mental Health, GP Referral, Great Manchester Local Health and Care Record, Health and Care Infrastructure, Health and Care of Older People, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Health Information Technology, Health Innovation, Healthcare Infrastructure, HealthRoster, Healthtech Advisory Board, Hospital Outpatient Care, ICD11, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Information and Data Linkage to Support Transformation, Information and Intelligence, Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Information Needs of Patients, Information Technology, Information Technology Connectivity, Infrastructure, Initial Code of Conduct for Data-Driven Health and Care Technology, Innovation in Bioinformatics, Innovation Infrastructure, Innovation Technology and Infrastructure, Integrated Digital Care Record (IDCR) Approach, Integrated Health and Care Records, Integrated Pain and Spinal Service (IPASS), Integrated Patient Acuity Monitoring Systems, Integration of Health and Care, Internet First, Interoperability, Interoperability Specifications, Interoperability Standards, Interoperable Electronic Health Records, Investing for Transformation, Investment in Information Technology, IT Infrastructure, Jeni Tennison: CEO of Open Data Institute, Karen Kirkham: NHS England’s National Clinical Advisor for Primary Care, Kent Surrey and Sussex AHSN, LEGO Serious Play, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methodology, LHCRE Approach, Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE), Local Health and Care Records Exemplars, Management Information Systems, Manoj Badale: Co-Founder of Blenheim Chalcot, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Mental Health - Global Digital Exemplars, Michelle Brennan: Group Chair for Johnson and Johnson Medical Devices Companies, MIS: Management Information System, Most Advanced Health and Care System in World (NHS Ambition), National Information Board’s Building a Digital Ready Workforce (BDRW) Programme, National Information Board’s Plans to Improve Digital Services in Health and Care, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), Nervecentre Platform: Nottingham University Hospitals, New Technology, NHS apps Library, NHS at 70: New Technology for the NHS and Patients, NHS Culture, NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d), NHS Digital Data and Technology Standards Framework, NHS Digital’s Data Security and Protection Toolkit, NHS Electronic Patient Records, NHS Investment in Digital Technology and Infrastructure, NHS IT Infrastructure, NHS Number, NHS Technology Agenda, NHS Workforce, Nicola Blackwood: Chair of Human Tissue Authority, Nicole Junkermann: Founder of NJF Holdings, NMMDS: Nursing Management Minimum Data Set, North West London: Connecting Care for Children (CC4C), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nursing Workforce Planning and Deployment Technologies, OAuth 2.0, Online Patient Consultations, OPCq: (Oulu Patient Classification Qualisan) Instrument, Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Open Culture, Open Data and Big Data, Open Standards, Open Standards Principles, Open Systems, OpenID Connect, Optimising Benefits of Digital Technology, Optimising Patient Outcomes Using Digital Technology, Optimising Use of Digital Technology, Oulu Patient Classification Instrument, Outpatient Appointments, Outpatient Attendances, Outpatient System: Redesign, Outpatients, Outpatients: Adding Value Through Sustainability (RCP 2018), Paper-Free Healthcare, Paper-Free NHS, Paperless Systems, Parker Moss: F-Prime and Eight Roads, Patient Access to Records, Patient Activation, Patient Choice, Patient Empowerment, Patient Records, Patients Know Best (PKB): Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Personalised Medicine, Personalised Medicine: Improving Outcomes, Personalised Technology, Planned Operations and Care Within 18 Weeks of Referral, Prevention of Avoidable Outpatient Appointments, Professor Stephen Powis: NHS England's National Medical Director, Public Cloud First, Rachel Dunscombe: CEO of NHS Digital Academy and Director of Digital for Salford Royal NHS Group, RAFAELA: RAFAELA® System (Finnish Consulting Group), Realist Reviews, Realist Syntheses, Reducing Unnecessary Trips to Hospital, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Remote Monitoring Systems, Robotics and Voice Assistants: Dementia Support, Robotics and Voice Assistants: Medication Management, Robotics and Voice Assistants: Support for Rehabilitation, Roger Taylor: Chair of Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), SafeCare (Allocate), Safer Nursing Care Tool, Sarah Wilkinson: Chief Executive at NHS Digital, School of Healthcare Sciences: Bangor University, Self Care (Technology-Supported), Self-Management (Technology-Supported), Service Transformation, Sir Mark Walport: Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Skype, SNOMED CT, Standardisation of Data Infrastructure Platforms and APIs, STEAM: System to Escalate and Monitor Clinical Capacity, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Sustainability, Tackling Wasteful Spending, Technology and Infrastructure Development, Telemedicine, TeleTracking, Text Messaging, Tools in Modern Browsers, Tracking Patient Care, Tracking Patient Progress, Transformational Commissioning, Transformational Technologies, Transformative Health Technology, Transformative Technology, Treating Patients Closer to Home, Trialling Use of Amazon Echo in Adult Social Care, Triangulated Approaches to Safe Staffing, UK’s National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), Unified Codes for Units of Measure (UCUM), University of Manchester, Unnecessary Outpatient Appointments, Upgradability, Use of Data and Technology to Transform Outcomes for Patients and Citizens, Video Consultations to Avoid Outpatient Attendances, Virtual e-Clinic (Tower Hamlets), Walton Centre Neurology Advice Line, Walton Centre Neurology Hotline for GPs, WannaCry Attack (2017), WCS Care, Whole Systems Integrated Care, Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC), Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Education, Workforce Planning and Deployment Tools and Technology (WPTs), Workforce Skills, WPT: Workforce Planning and Deployment Tools and Technology | Leave a comment

Fair and Affordable Access to Medicines in the NHS (NHS England / UCL IIPP)

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Adalimumab is a medicine on which hospitals spend more than £400 million a year. The patent has now expired, allowing patients to be treated with a cheaper biosimilar, saving around £150 million per year (which can be re-directed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Medicines, Adalimumab, Added Benefit of New Drugs (Analysis), Affordability, Affordability (Facilitators of Innovation), Affordability and Access to Essential Medicines, Affordable Medicines, Alignment of Corporate Interests With the Public Interest, Alternative Health Innovation Model (Proposals), Andrew Davies: Director of Hospital Pharmacy at NHS Improvement, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), Barriers to Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Better Procurement, BioCubaFarma, Biological Medicines and Biosimilars, Biosimilars for Adalimumab, Cancer Innovation Fund (CIF), Charging Prices the Market Will Bear, Collaboration and Transparency, Compulsory Licensing, Compulsory or Public Non-Commercial Use Licences, Decline of Drugs Research and Development Efficiency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), Delinkage, Delinkage of Incentives for Innovation From High Prices, Directed Innovation, Direction of Innovation for Public Value, Drug Patent Monopolies: Negation of Competition, Drug Patents, Drug Pricing Negotiations, Drug Pricing Strategies, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Effective Knowledge Sharing, Energiewende in Germany, European Public Health Alliance, Expensive Drugs, Finance and Budgeting: Affordability (Barriers to Innovation), Finance and Procurement, Global Justice Now, Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), Health Innovation, Health Innovation Better Managed to Deliver Public Value, Heidi Chow: Global Justice Now, High Medication Prices Placing Pressure on NHS Budgets and Causing Rationing, High Prices Failing to Reflect Social Value, Highly-Priced Medicines, Human Genome Project (HGP), I-MAK, Improving Access to Medicines, Incentivising Investment in Innovation, Inefficiencies in Innovation, Innogen, Innovation and Improvement, Innovation Direction, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Geared to Encouraging Innovation, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Geared to Public Value, Intellectual Property Rules Geared for Public Health, International Nonproprietary Names (INN), Just Treatment, Knowledge Ecology International, Knowledge Governance, Lack of Safeguards in Current Pharma R&D Model, Lack of Transparency and Public Accountability, Lack of Transparency and Stifled Collaboration, Learning from DARPA, Mariana Mazzucato: UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Me-Too Drugs, Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), Medicines Price Transparency, Mission-Driven Innovation, Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy, Mission-Oriented Thinking, Monopoly Pricing, Open Society Foundations, Opportunities for Volume-Based and Pooled Procurement, Out-of-Reach Drug Prices, Patent Monopolies Negating Competition, Patentability Criteria Consistent With TRIPS Agreement, Patents Blocking Learning Diffusion and Collaboration, People’s Prescription: Re-Imagining Health Innovation to Deliver Public Value, Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), Pooled Procurement Mechanism, Pricing Legislation, Principles of Health Innovation Model Designed For Public Value, Procurement, Profit Maximisation Versus Public Value Maximisation, Public Investment in Biomedical Innovation, Public Purpose, Public Purpose and Public Value, Public Value, Public Value Maximisation, Reducing Spending on Expensive Drugs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Saoirse Fitzpatrick: STOPAIDS, Short-Termism and Financialisation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Smart Procurement, Social Value, STOPAIDS, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), TRIPS Agreement, TRIPs-Plus Provisions, Upstream Investment in Research and Development Negotiated Into Better Downstream Public Benefit, US Biochemical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), US Department of Health: Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), Value Based Pricing, Value-Based Pricing (Imperfect Model), Value-Based Pricing: Corrupted Into Maximising Value Extraction (Versus Public Good), Variations in Procurement, Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) | Leave a comment

Dementia Medication De-Listed in France: Untruth, Half-Truth or Paternalistic News Blackout? (BBC News / Prescrire / ADI / Inside Health / JAMA Network Open)

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Early evening headlines yesterday, on BBC Radio 4 news, announced the “shocking” news that drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease / dementia had been de-listed in France. This story has not been followed-up, and appears to have been dropped quietly; although … Continue reading →

Posted in Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), Universal Interest | Tagged Adverse Drug Reactions, Adverse Effects, Alpha-7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (α7nAChR), Alzheimer's Disease: Monotherapy Versus Combination Therapy, Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) Campaigns, American Family Physician, Anti-Dementia Medication, Augusta University, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4's Inside Health Programme, BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme, Big Pharma, Cholinergic-Nicotinic System, Choosing Wisely, Clinic for Medicine of the Elderly (Hannover), Conflict of Interests, Conflicts of Interest, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience and Drug Development: Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health: Marshfield Clinic Health System, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior: Augusta University, Deprescribing, Donepezil, Donepezil-Memantine Combination, Donepezil-Memantine: Monotherapy Versus Combination Therapy, Drug Efficacy, Drug Side-Effects, Drugs Alleged to Raise False Hopes (Speculative Construct), Family Medicine Residency Program: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN), Formindep: Non-Profit Organisation Promoting Independence From Industry Influence, France, France's National Authority for Health (HAS), French Ministry of Health and Solidarity, French National Dementia Guidelines, Galantamine, Galantamine-Memantine Combination Versus Donepezil-Memantine Combination, Galantamine-Memantine Drug Combination, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Germany, Glutamatergic Receptor Systems, Glutamatergic System, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Institute of Pharmacology: Polish Academy of Sciences, JAMA Network Open, Janssen Research and Development, Journal of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Keck School of Medicine: University of Southern California, KYNA/3-HK, KYNA/KYN, KYNA/QUIN, Kynurenic Acid, Kynurenine Pathway, Marshfield Clinic Health System (USA), Medical College of Georgia: Augusta University, Memantine, Ministry of Health and Solidarity (France), Mismatch Negativity (MMN), Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Health (US), Neurotransmitter Systems in Alzheimer’s Disease, NMDA (N-Methyl-D-Aspartate), Over-Treatment, Oxidative Stress, Paola Barbarino: Alzheimer’s Disease International, Poland, Polish Academy of Sciences, Prescrire in English [the Prescriber] / Rev. Prescrire, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rivastigmine, Serge Gauthier: ADI’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel (MSAP), Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Synaptec Inc (Florida), Too Much Medicine, United States, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Southern California, USA | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Reducing Waste in the NHS

Dementia Medication De-Listed in France: Untruth, Half-Truth or Paternalistic News Blackout? (BBC News / Prescrire / ADI / Inside Health / JAMA Network Open)

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Google Translate (100+ Languages)

Recommended Sites