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It would be helpful if someone posted the weblink for the press release cited in the following news story.
EU UK government funds tobacco harm reduction program
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Service contract - 317616-2011 - TED Tenders Electronic Daily
Contract award: UK-London: economic research services | PublicTenders.net
Service contract - 317616-2011 - TED Tenders Electronic Daily
Contract award: UK-London: economic research services | PublicTenders.net
wow seriously? the UK is really making me happy lately.
I still hate Michael Bisping though, but what are you gonna do?
I still hate Michael Bisping though, but what are you gonna do?
ECCA has just become involved in this procedure as a stakeholder. However, from the documentation seen so far - especially the composition of the membership - it seems that THR is something of a misnomer. What they are actually talking about is a new way of talking about pharma products and processes - and probably a way of 'owning' THR to deflect any moves toward real THR, that is, use of less-harmful consumer products.
It is hard to say exactly how close NICE is to the DoH but there is considerable overlap in the personnel involved; and the DoH's agenda is for all intents and purposes the pharma industry's agenda: eliminate any competitor, and keep the state health program totally pharma-based and surgery-based, with no other influence permitted unless it has irresistible backing.
NICE will almost certainly move to recommend pharma products and associated procedures exclusively - that is, a THR concept that is diametrically opposed to consumer control of the issue. This is conveniently assisted by the fact they don't have to take Snus into account as it is banned in the UK by the EU directive.
As anyone who has lived in different EU countries will know, the UK interprets EU directives as the word of Zeus and to be implemented to the letter and to the full force of the law. Not even Germany enforces them to the same extent, and they do love rules there. The further south in Europe you go, the less heed they pay to Brussels. By the time you reach the Med and south-west Atlantic coast, EU directives are seen as joke instructions found in a Christmas cracker and ignored wherever possible, as 'they don't apply to us'. But in the UK, EU directives are seen as the ultimate law. This is handy because it means the UK government 'cannot' argue about a directive that in effect kills up to 40,000 UK citizens a year (the number who die as a result of not being given access to Snus).
One interesting, and unrelated, factoid is that Intellicig are closely associated with a group who have obtained the contract to supply SSS to the NHS in the Midlands (translation: supply of stop-smoking services to the state health service in the central area of the country). This probably means that, when Intellicig get their pharma license, their product will feature strongly in SSS programmes there.
No doubt there will be much discussion of all the issues surrounding that...
It is hard to say exactly how close NICE is to the DoH but there is considerable overlap in the personnel involved; and the DoH's agenda is for all intents and purposes the pharma industry's agenda: eliminate any competitor, and keep the state health program totally pharma-based and surgery-based, with no other influence permitted unless it has irresistible backing.
NICE will almost certainly move to recommend pharma products and associated procedures exclusively - that is, a THR concept that is diametrically opposed to consumer control of the issue. This is conveniently assisted by the fact they don't have to take Snus into account as it is banned in the UK by the EU directive.
As anyone who has lived in different EU countries will know, the UK interprets EU directives as the word of Zeus and to be implemented to the letter and to the full force of the law. Not even Germany enforces them to the same extent, and they do love rules there. The further south in Europe you go, the less heed they pay to Brussels. By the time you reach the Med and south-west Atlantic coast, EU directives are seen as joke instructions found in a Christmas cracker and ignored wherever possible, as 'they don't apply to us'. But in the UK, EU directives are seen as the ultimate law. This is handy because it means the UK government 'cannot' argue about a directive that in effect kills up to 40,000 UK citizens a year (the number who die as a result of not being given access to Snus).
One interesting, and unrelated, factoid is that Intellicig are closely associated with a group who have obtained the contract to supply SSS to the NHS in the Midlands (translation: supply of stop-smoking services to the state health service in the central area of the country). This probably means that, when Intellicig get their pharma license, their product will feature strongly in SSS programmes there.
No doubt there will be much discussion of all the issues surrounding that...
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