Early Access to Medicines Scheme

The early access to medicines scheme (EAMS) was introduced by the MHRA with the objective of providing patients with life-threatening or seriously debilitating conditions, access to medicines that have not yet received a Marketing Authorisation and addresses an unmet medical need. Since the scheme was launched in 2014 over 1,200 people from across the UK, […]

Brexit – Impact of COVID-19

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom narrowly voted to leave the European Union, a decision which has impacted the lives of millions of people. Once the results of the historic vote were revealed, who would have predicted that the process to leave the European Union would take four and a half years.   While […]

COVID-19 – Impact on Hospital Patients

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed due to a rapid increase of COVID-19 cases, the UK Government made a decision on 16th March 2020 to put the population of the UK into lockdown.   Before the pandemic began, the BBC reported that 1,600 patients were waiting for non-urgent […]