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
Sep 4, 20239 min read
Land of the Long Wait Crowd: problems in New Zealand's medicine funding system
Brendan Shaw "It is so important that New Zealanders are able to access new, emerging and effective cancer treatments that are the...
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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
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
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Is 2022 the Pharma Industry’s ‘Call of Duty’ Moment?
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 1 February 2022 on key trends for 2022 can be found here. #pharma #health #vaccines...
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Brendan Shaw
Apr 8, 20211 min read
More risk for government this time around in agreement negotiation
Brendan Shaw Article published in BioPharmaDispatch 9 April 2021 on the risks for government and industry in negotiations on a new...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 2, 20204 min read
COVID-19 vaccination a 12-month success for science, governments and industry
Brendan Shaw The news just in that the United Kingdom has formally approved the roll out of mass vaccinations for COVID-19 from next week...
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Brendan Shaw
Nov 3, 20206 min read
Non-communicable diseases and the global countdown to 2030
Brendan Shaw “Although premature mortality from NCDs is declining in most countries, for most the pace of change is too slow to achieve...
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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 23, 20201 min read
This could get messy: Trump’s New ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Executive Order on Medicine Pricing
Brendan Shaw Article published 24 September 2020 in PharmaBoardroom on US President Donald Trump's new Executive Order on Most Favoured...
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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
Jun 30, 20206 min read
Global trends in cardiovascular deaths: 30 years of country data
Brendan Shaw More people on the planet die from cardiovascular disease than any other illness or injury. Cardiovascular disease is...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Spanish Flu vs COVID-19: medical technology and health system resilience
Brendan Shaw Blog published on Medium on 22 June 2020 can be found here. #COVID-19 #health #technology #resilience #funding
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 13, 20206 min read
Covid-19 - So how are we doing? Lessons from USA, UK and France and how to move forward
Rob Hnatuk, Ben Deaville and Jon Bastow* As lifelong friends resident in the USA, UK and France respectively we have been speaking weekly...
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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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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
Apr 11, 20204 min read
'Coronavirus is yucky': a pandemic through the eyes of kids
My five-year-old niece has nailed it. While there are reams of news stories, pages of medical advice, hundreds of learned online...
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