Tag: NHS
NHS to roll out life-changing glucose monitors to all type 1 diabetes patients
NHS England has secured a deal for ‘Dexcom ONE Real Time-Continuous Glucose Monitoring’ device which will help type 1 diabetes patients to keep track...
NHS marks ‘Alpelisib’ as 100th fast-tracked cancer drug
The drug, alpelisib, which is the 100th cancer drug that has being fast-tracked to patients under the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF)Â will be used...
NHS claims its ‘smart deals’ have saved taxpayers £1.2 billion on medicines procurement over 3 years
The NHS claims that it's been able to save taxpayers £1.2 billion in just three years by procuring hundreds of hospital medicines at a...
NHS set to roll out two superbugs busting drugs
The NHS has signed the first-of-its-kind subscription deal for two antimicrobial drugs - cefiderocol and ceftazidime–avibactam, manufactured by Shionogi and Pfizer respectively - that...
NHS prescription charges frozen for first time in 12 years
The government has announced a freeze to the NHS prescription charges, first time in 12 years, to help people ease with the cost of...
‘Durvalumab’ can improve life span of lung cancer patients
The drug, ‘durvalumab’, can double the overall time someone can survive with an aggressive form of lung cancer from two-and-a-half to five years.
It has...