When profit isn’t everything: 46,000 years of cultural history vs the iron ore spot price
Brendan Shaw “Our people are deeply troubled and saddened by the destruction of these rock shelters and are grieving the loss of...
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Brendan Shaw
May 16, 20201 min read
The coronavirus challenge
Article published in Pharma Times on 15 May 2020 about our failure to adequately fund our health systems to maintain resilience after the...
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Brendan Shaw
May 11, 20205 min read
When resilience trumps efficiency in healthcare
“Global capitalism will have to be re-balanced. The pre-COVID balance between efficiency and resilience will have to tilt on the side of...
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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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Brendan Shaw
Jul 27, 20185 min read
Can we handle a cure?: the politics and economics of hepatitis C treatment
When the first of the new hepatitis C medicines, the direct acting antivirals (DAAs), entered the market about five years ago they became...
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Brendan Shaw
Jul 12, 20185 min read
The NHS – what lessons from a 70-year-old system of universal health coverage?
“Society becomes more wholesome, more serene, and spiritually healthier, if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 28, 20185 min read
To price or not to price, that is the question
What price to put on a medicine is one of the big issues in global health right now. While there are times when the debate around drug...
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