Author: Selina McKee

NHS Foundation Trust watchdog Monitor has sent a task force of top clinical experts and specialists into Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS FT to drive a “rapid improvement of services”.

It was good news for Guildford, UK-based stem cell group ReNeuron last week after the company unveiled a promising set of six-month results as well as the receipt of two funding grants from the TSB.

Practice-based commissioning has taken another beating in a new report claiming the flagship reform policy is simply not working in its current state and that the purse strings should truly be handed to local clinicians instead.

GW Pharmaceuticals has turned in a healthy set of results for the year ended September 30, 2009, with a hefty increase in revenues helping to push the balance sheet into the black for the first time.

The UK is already lagging way behind other European countries in the uptake of innovative medical technologies and leading experts warn that any cuts to NHS technology budgets will come at a higher price in the long term.