Our diet after Brexit and COVID-19

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Our diet after Brexit and COVID-19: What has changed and who is affected?  Join this webinar to review the status of the British diet following the disruption of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. How have we coped? How has the nutrition and health status of the population changed? What else needs doing? This interactive webinar will […]

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Guidance on Brexit transition period

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ABPI response to MHRA guidance for the end of the transition period The MHRA has published information for pharmaceutical companies preparing for the end of the Brexit transition period.​ The guidance provides some information on how to operate from 1 January 2021, including on licensing of medicines and devices, clinical trials, exporting active substances for […]

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Brexit could lead to thousands more heart attacks

Brexit could contribute to thousands more deaths from heart attacks and strokes by 2030, new research has found. In one of the first studies to date to look at the impact of Brexit on food imports and public health, researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Liverpool looked at how varying Brexit scenarios […]

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Brexit could disrupt medical supplies

Patients could find that supplies of their medicines will be disrupted when the UK leaves the EU,  according to the Brexit Health Alliance in a briefing paper published this week, which is calling on both sides to put patients first. The Alliance brings together the NHS, medical research, industry, patients and public health organisations to […]

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Brexit and the future of UK medical research

We are now living in a post-Brexit world. On the 23rd June 2016, we as a nation decided to leave the European Union and navigate our own way through this increasingly connected world. For 43 years, the UK has been a member state of the EU, working in an inter-connected market of free-trade and political collaboration, but is […]

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Destructive Innovation creates a wasteland

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The wasteland created by the political class post-Brexit is the ultimate expression of a deluded mantra which has gradually been eroding the NHS and now the country. Time and time again over the last 10 years, I have been confronted with NHS managers, medical leaders and policy makers who cite the holy cause of ‘destructive innovation’ as the means to […]

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