Drug compaines may take over treatment

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Chinese Medicine , " Attilio

DAlberto " <attiliodalberto> wrote:

 

> In addiction to providing the latest drugs to patients and

measuring

> their outcomes, the move could allow more conditions to be managed

> in primary care and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

 

 

oops, addiction and providing drugs

 

That's a good one

 

Mark

[Guest guest]

Hi Attilio!

 

I think this part is the key: (Yeah, I know it was meant another way but .

.. . )

 

" *addiction* to providing the latest drugs "

 

At 09:17 PM 5/18/2004, you wrote:

>Taken from: News Pulse 3 May 2004.

>

>Drug companies expect to take over the treatment of patients with

>chronic conditions under a Government drive to increase the range of

>providers in primary care.

>

>Eddie Gray, senior vice president and general manage for

>GlaxoSmithKline UK, told an NHS Alliance conference the move was a

>logical step in the pharmaceutical industry's relationship with the

>NHS.

>

>In addiction to providing the latest drugs to patients and measuring

>their outcomes, the move could allow more conditions to be managed

>in primary care and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.

>

>The company said Government `openness' in finding additional

>resources to drive improvements in choice, plurality of provision

>and chronic disease management meant it could build on its

>experience in respiratory care, HIV capacity planning and diabetes,

>on which it is already in partnership with Pfizer across eight

>primary care and acute trusts.

>

>GPC negotiator Dr Laurance Buckman expressed alarm at the plans.

>

>`Chronic disease management is an essential part of primary care.

>Other people doing it fragments whole person medicine if you are

>trying to integrate care. It's bad for patients', he said.

>

>

>Interesting eh? MDs are being sidelined or is it a tactical move as

>TCM practitioners will also be pharmacists?

>

>Attilio

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