Is the new price right?: HTA takes a back seat to broader price negotiations
Brendan Shaw I don't always say this but spare a thought for the harried and hapless bureaucrats responsible for managing governments and...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 201 min read
Could Human HTA Committees be Replaced with AI Systems?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 18 September 2024 which can be found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/could-hum...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 78 min read
WFH ... WTF ... ????: Working-from-home, employer reaction and pandemic-inspired industrial changes
Brendan Shaw "If after 15 months, you have only a 'suspicion' about what your people are up to and find it 'hard to know' who are your...
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Brendan Shaw
May 266 min read
Ghosts in the Machine: the search for productivity measures in health technology assessment
Brendan Shaw "If Nature abhors the void, the mind abhors what is meaningless. Show a person an inkblot, and he will start at once to...
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 49 min read
More ‘us’ and less ‘them’ thinking: a plea for 2024
Brendan Shaw “The governments may be different. But the people actually always have one desire and that is to live and to raise their...
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Brendan Shaw
Nov 15, 20238 min read
Déjà vu all over again?: Australia’s industrial policy debate
Brendan Shaw “Although it is portrayed as a forward-looking approach to industry policy, there is much that is “old‑think” about it … the...
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Brendan Shaw
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Universal Health Coverage at the Half-Way Point: Political Disappointment & Business Opportunity
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 9 October 2023 which can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/universal-...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 27, 20231 min read
Have health and the PBS come of age as the Intergenerational Report turns 21?
Brendan Shaw Article published in Biopharmadispatch, 28 August 2023, (paywall) which can be found here. #medicines #ageing #economics...
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Brendan Shaw
May 7, 20235 min read
Unconscious uncoupling?: Three years on Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency
Brendan Shaw " I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...
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Brendan Shaw
Apr 27, 20231 min read
The Magic, Myths & Fantasy of ESG: What Does it Mean for Pharma?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom 27 April 2023 can be found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/the-magic-myths-fan...
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Brendan Shaw
Nov 29, 20225 min read
From the sublime to the ridiculous: 5 years of Shawview Consulting blogs
Brendan Shaw Every month since I first started Shawview Consulting back in 2017, I have written a blog. Shawview has just celebrated its...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 31, 20225 min read
Species extinction in Australia: time for a wake-up call
Brendan Shaw “When Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay, the forests fringing the waters abounded with marsupials such as quolls and...
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Brendan Shaw
Jul 24, 20226 min read
Lessons learned: finance and resilience in post-COVID health systems
Brendan Shaw “If you staff at maximum capacity, well, then you have to price and cost for maximum capacity at all times. But then do you...
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Brendan Shaw
Mar 24, 20226 min read
Jane Fonda, mix tapes & Australia's 5% discount rate: when time, health economics and ethics collide
Brendan Shaw How much do you value your future health? How much do you value the future health of your kids and your grandkids? And how...
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Brendan Shaw
Feb 23, 20225 min read
It’s the economy, stupid: the economic benefits of health spending
Brendan Shaw “Economic activity contracted in 90 per cent of the world’s countries in 2020. This exceeded the proportion hit by the two...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 8, 20211 min read
Australians now understand there is a 'queue' for new health technologies
Podcast interview of Brendan Shaw with Paul Cross from BioPharmaDispatch, 8 December 2021 that can be heard here. The interview discusses...
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Brendan Shaw
Nov 23, 20205 min read
A little less conversation, a little more action please: the global state of AMR
Brendan Shaw "A little less conversation, a little more action please All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me A little more bite...
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Brendan Shaw
Sep 3, 20207 min read
What would Dr Who say?: Time travel and the macroeconomic impact of COVID-19
Brendan Shaw “… governments need to be convinced that investing in public health systems is absolutely necessary despite the multitude of...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 4, 20206 min read
The economist, the activist and the epiphany: an argument about efficiency in health spending
Brendan Shaw "Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money" - Voltaire Soon after arriving in...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 10, 20201 min read
Creeping Through the Backdoor: Disruption in Medicine and Health
Brendan Shaw and Orin Chisholm Article published in the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology on 10 June 2020 on whether health systems can...
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