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Feb 02, 2012 Competition can help the integration of care in the NHS, and there is no proof that it would hinder it, according to a new report from the Office of Health Economics. The report analyses the conclusions of the Commission on Competition in the NHS, which was assembled by the OHE (Office of...
Jan 31, 2012 The UK government has revealed new plans for a focus to improve health care for children and young people.The ‘Children's and Young People's Outcomes Strategy’, which will be unveiled later in the year, will concentrate on improving healthcare service outcomes for children, including tho...
Jan 26, 2012 Our newest advert has been published in the latest issue of BrAPP's Pharmaceutical Physician Magazine. It can be downloaded in our Brochure and latest adverts section. Tell us what you think!...
Jan 25, 2012 The European pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market made revenues of $10.02 billion in 2011, and this figure is expected to double to $20.75 billion by 2018, according to new forecasts. Over the same time period, the European market for biotechnology contract manufacturing is expected to inc...
Jan 19, 2012 The BAPW (British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers) has appealed for pharmacies and manufacturers to support third-party monitoring and reporting of branded drug supplies.Critical deliberation should be given to the establishment of a robust, objective monitoring and survey service of medic...
Jan 17, 2012 Cuts in patient services are difficult to rationalise when there are many ways hospitals could improve their efficiency, a major new evaluation prepared for the Nuffield Trust by Jeremy Hurst and Sally Williams has concluded.While inefficiencies in areas such as rates of day case surgery, len...
Jan 11, 2012 The international landscape for investigative sites, research centres that conduct clinical research, has continued to decline over the past five years, according to US-based information services provider CenterWatch. The global economic downturn is combining with decreasing study numbers, budg...
Jan 05, 2012 Roughly 80% of doctors are concerned about how they will be treated when they grow old and fear that present guidelines to deal with the ageing population are not "comprehensive, realistic or sufficiently funded to address future demand". That is one of the main findings of a recent study from t...
Jan 03, 2012 UK Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has announced that one-year pilot schemes for a new initiative which allow patients to choose their GP practice will start in April this year. The trials, which will run in parts of central London, Manchester/Salford and Nottingham, will allow the public, for ...
Dec 22, 2011 The EU’s (European Union) proposal for a new directive on public procurement will permit "more scope for negotiating with suppliers," according to the NHS Confederation. The plans, which have been published by the European Commission this week, contain a number of provisions intended to sim...
Dec 21, 2011 The multiple myeloma drug therapy market will experience robust growth averaging 5.6% annually from 2010 to 2020 in seven of the world’s major markets, according to new projections. Growth in these markets - US, Italy, Spain, UK, France, Germany and Japan - will be driven by additional pene...
Dec 20, 2011 We would like to wish all of Only Medics' clients and candidates a very Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year. Thank you for your business in 2011 and we look forward to working with you in 2012! Please note the following office hours: Only Medics will be closed from midday on Fr...
Dec 20, 2011 The NHS is to gain a funding boost of over £2.5 billion to deliver services to patients in 2012-13, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has announced. £91.6 billion will be given to Primary Care Trusts, representing a 2.8% rise in total allocations. The funding breaks down as follow...
Dec 16, 2011 Galapagos of Belgium yesterday announced that they have reached milestones in its osteoarthritis alliance with Servier, resulting in a payment of 4 million euros from the French drugmaker. In July 2010, teamed up for a collaboration that could be worth around 300 million euros to the Mechelen-ba...
Dec 15, 2011 Ratings agency Fitch has issued a report predicting that the pharmaceutical sector will "continue to experience significant operating challenges" in 2012 but while issuing a negative outlook, they added that pharmaceuticals will still be one of the highest-rated industries. The new analysis comme...
Dec 13, 2011 The National Lung Cancer Audit announced that the proportion of patients receiving key care measures, such as surgery or anti-cancer treatment like chemotherapy or radiotherapy, is improving each year. 58.4% of patients with lung cancer in England and Wales and 63.9% in Scotland received an anti-c...
Dec 12, 2011 A small trial which shows that symptoms improved considerably in adults with the bleeding disorder haemophilia B, after a single treatment with gene therapy, has caused excitement among the scientific community. A single treatment with gene therapy developed by researchers at St Jude Children...
Dec 12, 2011 Fast Track, in association with the Sunday Times, has this week revealed Britain’s fastest growing private firms. Only Medics' sister company, Clinical Professionals, was ranked in the Top 50 within The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 league table for 2011. The league table ranks Britai...
Dec 09, 2011 Johnson & Johnson have entered into an agreement to help develop a cancer compound discovered by Pharmacyclics in a deal that could be worth close to $1 billion to Pharmacyclics. Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Biotech subsidiary will work together to develop and market the drug, known as PC...
Dec 08, 2011 Roche yesterday announced that they are increasing their collaborative efforts with academic researchers to deliver the next generation of targeted therapies for unmet medical needs by creating an external academic translational research hub in their home market. The hub in Zurich, Switze...
Dec 07, 2011 A report by Cancer Research has revealed that 40% (100,000) of cancers diagnosed annually in the UK are caused by a person's lifestyle choice and could potentially have been prevented. The main causes of the cancers included smoking, eating the wrong type of daily diet, and drin...
Dec 06, 2011 Earlier access to new medicines and automatic inclusion of NICE-recommended treatments onto local formularies are some of the many measures included in a package announced yesterday by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, as part of the UK's Life Sciences Strategy and the NHS Chief Executive, Si...
Dec 02, 2011 Eli Lilly and Company yesterday announced that they are conducting the first major international, prospective observational study intended to understand the real-world difficulties that people with type 2 diabetes face that result in preventing them from attainment their ultimate treatment goals. ...
Dec 01, 2011 Joint working with pharmaceutical companies should be "explicitly" positioned as an enabler of clinical commissioning, according to the NHS. The ethos and local emphasis of the NHS / industry joint working initiatives are closely aligned with the values of clinical commissioning, and their foc...
Nov 21, 2011 As Google+ becomes a more integrated part of our on-line searches, we thought we would list here the major Pharmaceutical companies with a dedicated page up on the network. Adding them to your circles will allow you to follow their latest research updates as well as any developments the pharmace...
Nov 09, 2011 Only Medics have recently created a dedicated page on Google+ Add us to your circles to be kept up to date on the latest careers and industry news for pharmaceutical physicians. Only Medics are the forefront of their field, of which we hope this we become another useful networking and information ...
Nov 07, 2011 Following on from our successful line of articles, a pharmaceutical physician from the industry has written an article for us on the subject of Interims. A very insightful read for those looking to move their career in this direction or wishing to know more information on the topic. Just head to o...
Sep 11, 2011 Following on from our new set of advert designs, our new BrAPP advert is now live. Read the latest issue of Pharmaceutical Physician to see it in print, or download it from the 'Brochure and Latest adverts' Section of the website....
Jul 25, 2011 Only Medics continues to see an increase in group numbers for our social media groups. We now have a number of groups on LinkedIn and a Twitter group to assist candidates looking for employment. After becoming one of the first pharmaceutical recruitment companies to network using LinkedIn grou...
Jun 23, 2011 Only Medics have recently been entered in for the National Online Recruitment Awards, NORA. Established in 2001, NORA reward the excellence in the UK online recruitment process, that has been unparalleled anywhere else in the world. We are delighted to be a part of these prestigious awards,...
Jun 01, 2011 After Months of Planning and feedback from Only Medics and our clients and contacts we are proud to present our new website. We feel it is a vast improvement on the old structure, and allows for much easier navigation and focus on the areas important to yourselves. We hope we continue to b...
May 18, 2011 Our latest BrAPP advert is was very warmly received in the latest issue of Pharmaceutical Physician. It is now also available as a PDF download in our Brochure and Adverts section....
Feb 09, 2011 Our latest advert to be published in the BrAPP pharmaceutical Physician Magazine is now available in the Brochure and Adverts section of the website....