Author: Selina McKee

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has sparked widespread outrage with a decision that would bar patients with liver cancer from access to Bayer’s Nexavar on the National Health Service.

Campaigners in Camden are celebrating a major victory after it emerged that Camden Primary Care Trust has backed out of plans to award a contract for a new GP super centre to a private provider.

National Health Service accountability is to be taken up a notch when new legislation comes into force next April requiring health bosses to report on consultations that form the basis of commissioning decisions.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is celebrating another major victory in the fight to decriminalise one-time dispensing errors by pharmacists and remove the threat of criminal conviction.

The National Health Service is delving deeper into the digital era with the launch of Summary Care Records in London this week, which are designed to provide healthcare professionals with immediate access to patients’ medical information.