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The pharmaceutical industry is now entering a new era in which it can, for the first time, prove that its products work, but realising the full benefits of this will require a “seamless relationship” between the industry and the NHS, says Stephen Whitehead, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)’s new chief executive.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) is to receive at least £10 million in additional funding to allow staff throughout the NHS to set up as independent organisations to run the services they deliver.

National Health Service chiefs are more concerned with handling tightening purse strings than actually putting in place the government’s health reforms, suggest findings of a survey by the NHS Confederation.

Innovation-based drugmakers have told President Obama in no uncertain they are not impressed by his 2012 budget proposals, especially plans to reduce patent protection on biologics and end ‘pay-for-delay’ deals with generics firms.

Proposals for a dramatic overhaul of the way the National Health Service is run were laid before parliament yesterday, but fears over the pace and scale of the changes outlined in the Health and Social Care Bill are gathering force.