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If you live in England, all your encounters with your GP – information about your physical, mental and sexual health – could be ‘sold’ to third parties
SMART PEOPLE: Jackie Williams PharmaTimes Jackie Williams, general manager, Astellas UK & Ireland, on her achievements, COVID-19, the challenges and opportunities for pharma and the need for progress in how we value innovation What is your background and current role? I started my career as an admin assistant at Baxter Healthcare in 1990 and have progressed to lead sales and marketing teams in multiple pharmaceutical companies. Joining Astellas in 2015, I had leadership roles in the UK and Australia before finally taking up my current role as general manager of Astellas UK & Ireland. My curre...
Describing any British industry as world-class these days is sure to get you a poke in the eye from critics who are contemptuous of so-called Anglo-Saxon 'exceptionalism'. Yet I am going to risk a black eye and say there are a couple of exceptions, one of them being the UK's thriving pharmaceuticals and life sciences sector which is without question up there at the top of the class. Our scientists are brilliant at coming up with drugs and therapies as we have just seen with the latest approval of GSK's HIV drug and a cancer drug from Astrazeneca, which also hopes to have the Covid-19 vacc...