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Congratulations to the PRP Team who were awarded the Leonard E Gibbs Award from Campbell in respect of their Occupational Health review.
Professor Ed Wilson, Director of PenTAG, gave his University of Exeter Medical School inaugural lecture on 29th January, entitled ‘Giving big pharma a hard time over their prices : doing my bit to keep the NHS afloat’.
Ed took the audience on a journey through his career, starting with applied research into the cost-effectiveness of various healthcare treatments alongside clinical trials, highlighting the amount of work that goes into these with sometimes very little to show for it and questioning the value for money of research itself. Ed also touched on his recent work trying to keep the national healthy without destroying either the economy or the planet.
Richard Holland, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Exeter Medical School shared the following summary:
"It was wonderful to hear Prof. Ed Wilson’s inaugural lecture yesterday evening. Ed provided a fantastic and highly enjoyable summary of the science of health economics, taking the audience on a journey from his PhD through to his (and his PenTAG team’s) critical and impactful work reviewing industry evidence on new interventions provided to NICE. We were left in no doubt of the critical importance of that work to ensuring NHS funding is well spent. Ed ended with his newly started work around the NHS’s contribution to our country’s carbon footprint and the work he is leading around considering those costs more fully from here-on. Altogether a great evening – thank you so much to Ed!"
The online lecture can be watched here: