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20 October 2021
The government needs a national self-care strategy to steer people away from unnecessary doctor and hospital visits as the National Health Service (NHS) recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a coalition of leading healthcare and industry bodies in the UK.
16 March 2021
The Association of the European Self-Care Industry (AESGP) has published a position paper on digitalisation, the director of the Danish Medicines Agency has stepped down, and the UK has updated its guidance for batch testing of imported medicines.
11 November 2020
The European Union and the UK have reached an agreement on medicines regulation in Northern Ireland, while the Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB) is calling on the National Health service (NHS) to harness online resources to boost self care.
4 September 2020
The Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB) has appointed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare’s Nisha Vempalle as associate director of regulatory affairs.
22 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a “significant impact on people’s behaviour and attitudes to self-care”, according to research carried out by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare and Ipsos in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK.