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Brendan Shaw
Apr 18 min read
Bungled Brexit, Bad Boris and a Broken NHS: the issues stalking Britain’s national election
Brendan Shaw "This is now a nation of self-loathing globalists." -Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, 30 March 2024 It’s become a cliché in...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 6, 20237 min read
Christmas Santa or Christmas Scrooge?: England's new medicines pricing regime sends mixed messages
Brendan Shaw “I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future....
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 11, 20216 min read
NICE methods review, UK Life Sciences Strategy and the life sciences industry: lessons for Australia
Brendan Shaw “We must balance ensuring the NHS gets the best value, delivering improved patient access and promoting innovation. These...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 17, 20215 min read
Fair dinkum or collywobbles? Life sciences and the Australia – UK free trade agreement
Brendan Shaw “Fair dinkum – (adj, Australian informal), true, genuine, authentic” - Aussie Slang Dictionary “Collywobbles – (noun, UK...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 12, 20206 min read
What future from a ‘no-deal’ Brexit for UK life sciences?
Brendan Shaw and Sunayana Shah With the Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union at an impasse and rising...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 4, 20195 min read
What trade war?: Western and Chinese life science companies just get on with it
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills" - Chinese proverb There’s been a lot said about the...
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Brendan Shaw
Nov 1, 20194 min read
The winter of discontent?: Britain's winter Brexit election
"Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep...
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Brendan Shaw
Apr 27, 20193 min read
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Brexit the Musical
Should I stay or should I go now? Should I stay or should I go now? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double So you...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 10, 20194 min read
The NHS 10-year plan: more artificial intelligence, less pigeon resuscitation
This week the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced the new 10-year plan for the National Health Service, with the claim that it...
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