All Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency articles – Page 3
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CommentNew regulation will balance safety and innovation
If the UK is to maintain its position as a champion of life sciences, its new regulatory regime must find the middle ground between safety and innovation, notes Lord Ara Darzi
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NewsGPs say rule change makes covid vaccine programme ‘unfeasibly challenging’
Coronavirus vaccinations at GP practices will now take ‘twice as long’ after regulators announced new rules just days before the jabs are rolled out across primary care.
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NewsThree trusts in high risk areas no longer getting covid vaccine this week
Several trusts serving areas with high rates of covid will not be getting any vaccine this week, having been removed from a national list of “hub” sites where the first doses are to be given.
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NewsExclusive: New guidance means few NHS staff now likely to get covid vaccine before Xmas
NHS staff are no longer the top priority for receiving the first covid-19 vaccine, and most are now unlikely to get the jab before Christmas, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: which NHS staff will get covid vaccine first
The first to be vaccinated after this morning’s approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech covid vaccine are likely to be NHS staff who are at risk of greater harm from covid-19, have greater exposure to it, or are likely to infect vulnerable people.
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NewsTrust CEO asks for ‘scientific evidence’ on covid vaccine safety to reassure staff
NHS trust chief executives have told HSJ they need more clarity the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine is safe to reassure their worried staff.
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NewsManufacturers not liable for faults in rush produced ventilators
NHS patients are being treated for covid-19 with ventilators for which the government has accepted legal liability from manufacturers over personal injury claims.
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NewsGovernment bans parallel export of 80 drugs
The government has banned the parallel export of more than 80 drugs to protect the national supply of key medicines.
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HSJ LocalTrust in £2m legal battle with pharma company
A specialist trust is being sued for nearly £2m by a Luxembourgian pharmaceutical company over allegations of wrongdoing by the provider’s subsidiary company, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsFT fined after cancer clinical trial death
A hospital trust has been fined £45,000 following the death of a leukaemia patient who was given five times the amount of drugs she was prescribed during a clinical trial.
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NewsClinical trial to resume after pathologist reverses decision on death
Researchers plan to restart high-dose radiotherapy in a cancer trial after refuting the outcome of a coroner’s inquest.
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NewsTrust stops making cancer drugs after criticism from regulator
An acute trust is to abandon manufacturing its own radiopharmaceuticals after a regulator said it needed more quality improvement work and better facilities.
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NewsNew Brexit plan worse for NHS than May’s deal, experts warn
The NHS will be exposed to more risk by the government’s latest Brexit deal than by Theresa May’s original agreement, health service experts and lobby groups have told HSJ.
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NewsMinisters confirm ban on some drug exports ahead of Brexit deadline
Ministers have confirmed plans for a ban on the export of certain medicines, starting with a group of 24 drugs including 19 hormone replacement therapy treatments, ahead of the no-deal Brexit deadline at the end of this month.
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NewsDHSC tenders for centralised purchasing service
NHS organisations will be given the chance to advertise and manage tenders on a new platform under government plans to create a centralised buying tool.
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NewsNHS faces legal action from ‘abandoned’ IV feed patients
The NHS and the national medical regulator could face legal action over the shortage of intravenous feed supplies for hundreds of UK patients, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRegulator announces interim CEO
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has appointed an interim chief executive.
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News‘Reprehensible’ action by regulator sparks call for inquiry
Senior clinicians have called for a review into how hundreds of patients have been left without intravenous food after action by the medical regulator severly curtailed its supply.
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NewsDozens of patients admitted in feed supply emergency
Dozens of patients including children have now been admitted to hospital because of the national shortage of intravenous food supplies for patients who cannot eat normal food, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE declares emergency over IV shortage
The shortage of intravenous feed supplies affecting hundreds of patients across the country has been declared a national emergency incident by NHS leaders.