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Drug access plan needs re-assessing, think tank argues
Date: 08 November 2010
The DoH must re-assess patient access schemes before it makes NICE`s role in rationing medicines redundant, according to a think tank. In its report, Sharing the Burden, pro-market group the Stockholm Network welcomed the government’s move away from NICE’s centralised rationing of medicines.
 InPharm
Don`t replace NICE with another "misguided experiment"
Date: 05 November 2010
Replacing NICE with a similar system would be detrimental to UK
healthcare, according to the Stockholm Network, which further warns risksharing agreements are too varied to be relied upon. The think-tank`s director Helen Disney said: “Even at a time of austerity, the British public does not want - or accept - rationed healthcare." PF blog
Not so Nice news on rationing, by Helen Disney
Date: 05 November 2010
Ever since its inception, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been controversial. Despite government rhetoric about assessment of clinical effectiveness, many saw it as a rationing body in disguise. In fact, Nice rejected very few medicines and treatments but decisions about those that were rejected were strongly contested by patients and the public, not to mention the media.
Pharmaletter
UK government must re-assess patient access schemes before making NICE redundant, says think tank; ABPI adapts Code of Practice
Date: 04 November 2010
The news that the UK drugs watchdog the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will no longer deny patients access to new medicines is a welcome move away from centralised rationing, according to the Stockholm Network, a pro-market think tank.
The Guardian
Rigorous scrutiny of GP fundholding plan
Date: 14 July 2010
Helen Disney responds to the white paper launched this week by the UK health secretary Andrew Lansley on NHS reform. In the letter, Helen points to other European healthcare systems that employ a mix economy as examples of how patient choice and outcomes could be improved in the NHS. This letter first appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday 14th July 2010. |
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