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UKHSA launches new strategy to tackle national and global health hazards

The new strategy sets out UKHSA’s vision and goals for the next 3 years to prepare for and respond to health threats and build the capabilities and technologies to protect the country in the future. The strategy promises that UKHSA will drive innovation and growth in the life sciences industry, particularly in diagnostics, emerging technologies, and the development and evaluation of vaccines. They…
Dawn
July 28, 2023
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Media Monitoring: 15 – 21 July

UK signs treaty to join vast Indo-Pacific trade group as new data shows major economic benefits Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch formally signed the treaty confirming the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – the Indo-Pacific trade bloc now worth £12 trillion in GDP – in New Zealand last week To celebrate this…
Dawn
July 21, 2023
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£100m LifeArc programme aims to help people living with rare diseases

LifeArc, the self-funded, non-profit medical research organisation and charity, has launched a new programme that will look to invest more than £100 million by 2030 to deliver new breakthroughs to improve the lives of people living with a rare disease. The groundbreaking Rare Disease Translational Challenge will bring together researchers in rare disease with the expertise LifeArc can offer in…
Dawn
July 21, 2023
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Health Secretary confirms 8 New Community Diagnostic Centres

  The new Community Diagnostic Centres will help cut waiting lists and provide more than 742,000 extra checks, tests, and scans once they are fully operational, according to government estimates.  The new CDCs expected this year include:  Scarborough Gateway which will deliver an extra 91,000 checks a year;  Scarborough (Ripon) which will deliver an extra 27,000 checks a year;  Oldham…
Natalie Creaney
July 14, 2023
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NHS set to expand pioneering pharma agreement as it ramps up the battle against antimicrobial resistance agreement as it ramps up the battle against antimicrobial resistance

The news comes almost a year after the health service initially pioneered the subscription-style model to drug contracts when it agreed deals for cefiderocol and ceftazidime-avibactam. Under this type of agreement, pharmaceutical companies are paid a fixed annual fee which, in this case, could double from £10m to £20 if the treatments offer particularly good value for money to the…
Dawn
July 14, 2023
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The EU’s PFAS regulation – and what it means for our industry

  It’s claimed that this would be a major climbdown from the EC’s plans to ban up to 12,000 hazardous substances under REACH regulation. Many of these are so-called "forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can build up in nature and human bodies and can cause a variety of illnesses. The alleged watering down of the regulation…
Natalie Creaney
July 14, 2023
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TidalSense shows high accuracy results for COPD test

COPD is an incurable medical condition that causes breathing problems because of lung damage and affects over 1.2 million people in the UK. Although common, many people do not know they have it and in the UK, almost half of people affected have not been diagnosed. COPD costs the NHS £1.9 billion a year with the majority of cost linked…
Dawn
July 7, 2023
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