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Brendan Shaw
Sep 20, 20241 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
Jun 27, 20241 min read
Short Memories: Has Health Fallen Off the Global Agenda? What Does it Mean for Pharma?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 26 June 2024 can be found at: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/short-memories-ha...
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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 30, 20221 min read
Arm Doors and Cross-Check: What the Health Sector Can Learn from the Post-COVID Airline Industry
Brendan Shaw Article "Arm Doors and Cross-Check: What the Health Sector Can Learn from the Post-COVID Airline Industry Debacle",...
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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
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
Oct 14, 20203 min read
The next 20-year PBS agenda: government commitments to new medicines spending
Brendan Shaw If it's real and if it sticks, the Australian government’s ‘New Medicines Funding Guarantee’ will be a significant...
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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
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
Jun 20, 20195 min read
HTA 2.0: time for a reboot
A few days spent at the Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) 2019 conference in Cologne this week gave a sense of how the...
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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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