The UK's National Institute for Clinical Excellence is in talks with the Department of Health over proposals for a revised process that would speed up review times of important new medicines and health technologies. NICEs' blessing is needed these days for a treatment to get a wide and rapid uptake within the NHS.
England had fallen behind our Scottish pacemakers and this was starting to cause some red faces south of the border.
However, Big Pharma, dont think things will be easier. It just means that your "me-too copies" will be named as such earlier than before!
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