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MHRA publishes 2025 Business Plan

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published its Business Plan for 2025/26, reaffirming its commitment to keeping patients safe and enabling access to high quality and effective medical products through innovation across the UK. The plan appears forward-looking, acknowledging their purpose as an engine of economic growth and the need to be bold and ambitious in the…
Ben Kemp
July 1, 2025
Medical and care technology part of growth directorate in NHS restructuring HighlightsHighlights Archive

Medical and care technology part of growth directorate in NHS restructuring

Sir Jim Mackey, Chief Executive of NHS England, and Samantha Jones, DHSC Permanent Secretary, have jointly released plans to restructure NHS England as part of its gradual absorption into DHSC. Notably, 'medical and care technology' has been added to the newly formed Commercial and Growth Directorate General. This move aligns with the government's plans to link life sciences and health…
Ben Kemp
July 1, 2025
The Health Foundation critical on lack of investment for implementing healthcare innovation HighlightsHighlights Archive

The Health Foundation critical on lack of investment for implementing healthcare innovation

In 2021, leading researchers at the Health Foundation mapped existing NHS innovation funding programmes.   Only 13% explicitly supported implementation. Subsequent analysis, such as the evaluation of the NHS AI Lab, identified too much central funding and support goes to new technology and pilots, not to their implementation. Re-running the mapping again in 2025, established adoption still loses out: Only 19%…
Ben Kemp
June 30, 2025
Early cancer deaths cost the UK economy over £10 billion a year HighlightsHighlights Archive

Early cancer deaths cost the UK economy over £10 billion a year

A recent study has found that premature deaths from cancer cost the UK economy £10.3 billion annually, more than any other health issue. According to Cancer Research UK (CRUK), this figure reflects the 350,000 years of lost productivity every year as working-age adults die before their expected lifespan due to cancer. On average, each early cancer death translates into an…
Ben Kemp
June 30, 2025
Media Monitoring: 19th – 25th June HighlightsHighlights Archive

Media Monitoring: 19th – 25th June

  Greater genetic diversity needed to widen genomics benefits in cancer care Greater diversity is needed in genetic research to make genomics’ use in cancer care and screening more accurate and reliable for all, according to a new study. The research, led by Genomics England and published in The Lancet Oncology, analysed the data of over 14,000 participants with cancer…
Ben Kemp
June 25, 2025
Government’s Infrastructure Strategy released HighlightsHighlights Archive

Government’s Infrastructure Strategy released

Last week, the government released their Infrastructure Strategy, one of the first in the flurry of plans set to affect our industry over the next few weeks. The government has framed this as a transformative strategy aimed at renewing the UK's infrastructure and reversing over a decade of decline. The plan is backed by at least £725 billion of government…
Ben Kemp
June 24, 2025
MHRA chief announces the agency’s strategic aims HighlightsHighlights Archive

MHRA chief announces the agency’s strategic aims

  On a recent trip to Washington D.C., the Chief Executive of the MHRA Lawrence Tallon outlined the agency's strategic direction. Mr Tallon stated his intention to build a world-class safety and surveillance system enabled by comprehensive real-world data for the protection of patients and the public. In line with BIVDA's priorities, he also signalled that the agency seeks to…
Ben Kemp
June 24, 2025
NHS set to DNA test all newborns to predict disease risk HighlightsHighlights Archive

NHS set to DNA test all newborns to predict disease risk

Over the next decade, the NHS in England plans to sequence the DNA of every newborn to identify their risk of developing hundreds of genetic conditions. This initiative is aligned with the government's strategy to shift healthcare towards prediction and prevention, set to be reflected in the upcoming NHS 10-Year Plan. This includes a £650 million investment in DNA research…
Ben Kemp
June 24, 2025
GPs to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer HighlightsHighlights Archive

GPs to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer

Hundreds of GP practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. Backed by £2 million in targeted funding, GP teams will scour online patients records to identify people over 60 who have the key early warning signs of pancreatic cancer including being recently…
Ben Kemp
June 24, 2025