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Children and young people with cancer in the UK face something of a funding lottery for services to preserve their fertility, with specialist treatment centers heavily reliant on charities to stump up the cash needed, particularly in England, finds the first study of its kind, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Three Gold Standards awarded for partnership work in patient advocacy and communications - News - PharmaTimes

Virtual event from OVID and the Patient Partnership Index is now open for registration - News - PharmaTimes

Colin Borland John Swinney is not known as a man easily daunted by the scale of the task in front of him. Which is just as well, when you consider the scope of his new brief as Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery. It’s hard to think of any aspect of our communities, families, mental and physical health and, of course, economy that hasn’t suffered at the hands of the pandemic and the efforts to control it. His challenge is to prevent this long-term damage becoming permanent. Creatin...

Pharma, comms and patient group leaders join judging panel for Patient Partnership Index 2021 11th March 2021 Senior leaders from UK and European pharma have come together to judge the Patient Partnership Index 2021. Now in its second year, the Index provides companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry the opportunity to showcase partnerships with patient organisations in communications and advocacy over the past year, including those in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, th...

Future fund backs UK startups with over £1bn investment As part of its coronavirus financial support measures, the UK government has invested over £1bn in early stage startups, in an effort to nurture the seeds of the UK’s economic recovery. by Alec Hawley Graphic via @rishisunak twitter You could be forgiven for not noticing the Future Fund. Alongside the tens of billions pumped into UK businesses struggling to survive in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic through the Bounce Back and...

British Business Bank Publishes Data on Future Fund The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data on the 971 companies that have been approved for £975.5 million worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since launch last May. The Future Fund is designed to support early-stage ventures that typically do not have the capacity to borrow money as they generate losses. The UK government created the program so the entrepreneurial class, important for long term growth, was not devastated by t...

18 December 2020 Members of the Armed Forces will be deployed across Wales this winter to help set up and operate vaccination centres in the community. Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart and the Defence Minister for the Armed Forces James Heappey have approved a Military Aid to the Civilian Authorities (MACA) request for the Welsh Government. The MACA provides more than 90 service personnel to support Wales’ Health Boards in rapidly establishing and operating vaccination centres. As the ...

Updated: Fri 18th Dec This article is old - Published: Friday, Dec 18th, 2020 Members of the Armed Forces will be deployed across Wales this winter to help set up and operate vaccination centres in the community. More than 90 service personnel will be to support Wales’ Health Boards in rapidly establishing and operating vaccination centres. As the vaccination programme is rolled out during the rest of December and into January, military personnel will support the setting up of additional cap...