Author: Claire Bowie

Having successfully led the bid for London to host the 2012 Olympic Games, Lord Sebastian Coe – winner of four Olympic gold medals turned MP, life peer and now champion of the nation’s health – has a new mission to get us all moving.

The dotcom pioneer Joe Kraus recently said that “the 20th century was about dozens of markets of millions of consumers.

This industry needs to forget about intellectual property and pool resources if it is to have any real hope of discovering innovative new medicines, a leading scientist claims.

The rate of innovation continues to outstrip what was ever thought possible, but we need to rethink and turn our way of approaching the future on its head. If we go from the current reality – shaped first by our business, then the market and finally the environment – we won’t get there, Hilary Thomas, partner at KPMG, told an audience of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association last month.

Just 20% of representatives taking part in a recent cross-industry benchmarking competition feel very well informed about the NHS changes, according to a new Sales Insights report from PharmaTimes.