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Industry sponsorship
The Industry Branch of the Department of Health supports the UK pharmaceutical and medical devices industry, and provides a channel for communication between the Government and the industry.
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Joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
In February 2007, the Ministerial Industry Strategy Group published its Long-Term Leadership Strategy for medicines. To encourage joint working between the NHS and pharmaceutical industry it recommended that the Department publish guidance and an interactive toolkit to support this.
- Best practice guidance
- Moving beyond sponsorship: interactive toolkit for joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
- Ministerial Industry Strategy Group - Long-term leadership strategy
EU Regulation on paediatric medicines
The European Commission published a proposal for Regulation on medicines for paediatric use on 29 September 2004. The proposal suggested establishing a legislative framework to increase the availability of medicines specifically adapted and licensed for paediatric use, and give patient/carer and prescribers more information about the use of medicines in children, including clinical trial data. It also promoted high quality research into medicines for children.
In this section:
- Healthcare industry - devices, equipment and technologies
- The importance of the UK pharmaceutical industry
- Certificates of Free Sale
- G10 Medicines - ways to strengthen the competitiveness of the European pharmaceutical industry
- Industry Sponsorship - Branch roles and responsibilities
- Ministerial Industry Strategy Group
- Honours recommendations for the industry
- Useful links
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