After days of drip-feeding highlights to the media, Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS in England was published in full on Thursday, 12th September. The week started out with details of the poor state of children’s health, with early data revealing: an increase in mental health referrals; longer waiting times for …
As the Labour Party met in Manchester, and listened to powerful and emotive stories from voters, including from a terminal cancer patient, Nathaniel, who wondered “what might have been” had he received cancer treatment on the NHS earlier, the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, took to the stage to promise an end to “sticking plaster …
In September 1985, Microsoft Excel was released, and the world changed. Excel was not the first spreadsheet software, but it was the first to implement “intelligent cell recomputation”, whereby changes to one cell automatically resulted in all linked cells (and no others) being updated. With the rise of Excel, tasks which once took hours were …
On a drizzly day in May, a rain-soaked Prime Minster rather bravely, in all senses of the word, stepped outside Downing Street to announce a general election. Reverberating to the sounds of the iconic theme tune of Labour’s 1997 landslide victory, the Prime Minister referenced the NHS only once – in terms of the “record ...
Every year, on the last day of February, the global rare disease community comes together to raise awareness and advocate for positive change for the 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease. To mark Rare Disease Day, the Department of Health and Social Care have published their third Rare Diseases Action Plan for …
Whilst the date of the General Election is yet to be announced, both the Conservative and Labour Parties have started 2024 in full campaign mode. Long accused of having no real policies, the latest offering from Labour – a Life Sciences Sector Strategy announced today at an industry roundtable at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst – …
Leading independent health communications consultancy OVID Health and patient insights charity White Swan have announced a new collaboration, designed to use the power of social data to inform and inspire patient-centric campaigns for life sciences companies. OVID becomes the first European comms consultancy to work with White Swan and harness its disruptive AI insights platform, …
As we look forward to 2024, our Senior Account Executive, Robbie Lockyer, considers the outlook for newborn screening for rare diseases, and discusses whether the UK is will continue to fall behind our European neighbours. Since the 1950s, when the newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme was first introduced (commonly referred to as the heel prick …
As part of our continued commitment to patient partnerships here at OVID, we’re very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast series, OVIDcast: Patient Partnerships. The series will see health charity leaders speak with the OVID team about what makes for successful partnerships, and how the life-sciences industry can strengthen approaches to patient …
Here at OVID Health, we are proud to be experts in supporting patients to secure change through patient advocacy. In the third instalment of this short series of blogs, we are sharing some of the insights we have gained working with our clients and running the Patient Partnership Index. As we have discussed in previous blogs, …
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