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Future for Pharmaceuticals: the Potential; the Pattern and the Problems
1 June 1983
Britain has very little to be proud of on the industrial front in the 1980s. Many of its traditional industries — the so-called ‘smokestack industries’ — are in decline. It…
Second Pharmacological Revolution
1 July 1983
The published proceedings of the symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in September 1982 by the Office of Health Economics to mark the 20th Anniversary of OHE….
Patterns of European Diagnoses and Prescribing
1 January 1984
In the summer of 1982 the Medico-Pharmaceutical Forum held a meeting on ‘Disparities in European Medicine’. The aim was to compare and contrast the various aspects of health and medical…
Crisis in Research
1 April 1986
In 1983 almost £6.6 billion was spent on research and development in the United Kingdom. This sum was five times that recorded in 1972 and even when account is taken…
Value of the Pharmaceutical Industry to the UK Economy
1 June 1995
Share this: Download publication David Hale Adrian Towse Although there is widespread agreement about the important role the pharmaceutical industry plays in the U K economy, there is no easily…
Regulating Prices Paid by the NHS for Medicines Supplied by the UK-Based Pharmaceutical Industry
1 October 1997
…privatised utility regulation and competition policy. The experience of other major European countries in regulating pharmaceuticals is also considered. It is structured as follows: Section 2 outlines the objectives we…
Biotechnology and the Economics of Discovery in the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 October 1998
This paper examines the economic aspects of the forces driving the emergence of biotechnology firms, and the implications of this for the organisation of research and development (R&D) and industrial…
Disease Management, the NHS and the Pharmaceutical Industry
1 March 1999
Share this: Download publication Anne R. Mason Michael F. Drummond Adrian Towse Disease management is a term with multiple and ambiguous meanings. For some, it is purely a form of…
Pharmaceuticals Among the Sunrise Industries
1 February 1984
The performance of the United Kingdom economy has been the subject of much critical comment in recent years. Of course, economic achievement can be viewed from many different perspectives, giving…