
Mark Samuels
@marksamuelsuk
CEO @Britishgenerics | Policy Fellow @Cambridge_Uni | ex-mountaineer🗻
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26-10-2011 15:55:24
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Delighted to see The Times and The Sunday Times Poppy Koronka article today about the new NICE gambling guidelines. A pleasure to have been involved in this work alongside many colleagues dedicated to fighting gambling harms. Next step? Randomised controlled trials!!



Words fail me ColetteMarshall

Our chief executive Mark Samuels gave evidence to the All-Party Pharmacy Group session on #MedicinesShortages. Mark spoke on why shortages are the tangible manifestation of a wider set of issues connected to the supply of generic and biosimilars. He also called for the off-patent sector






Over 50% of adults predicted to be obese by 2050 according to new study published in The Lancet. Researchers have found obesity will particularly impact low income communities across 200 countries and say if action is taken now, there is still time to halt the “global epidemic”.


Important article by Poppy Koronka – a third of British kids aged 5-9 could be overweight by 2050 thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

Today our members and representatives from the off-patent sector gathered in London for the official launch of our Women's Network. We were honoured to have Taiwo Owatemi MP join us as a special guest and participate on our panel discussion. She was joined by our Chief Executive


In a decreasingly secure world, we need a Office for Life Sciences Sector Plan that increases our medicine supply resilience👇

Recent UK governments have focused their #LifeSciences strategies purely on innovation – ignoring security of supply which leaves patients vulnerable to increased risk of shortages. Writing in UK in a Changing Europe, our chief executive Mark Samuels explains why now more than ever the need


Heightened geopolitical tensions and trade frictions pose a threat to the UK's medicines security. Quoted in the Independent, our Chief Executive Mark Samuels says "it would make complete sense to treat the nation’s medicines supply like defence". Read the full story:

My comments in The Independent on geopolitical tensions: the government must make the resilience of the supply chain for everyday medicines a top priority #NHS


My comments in Financial Times on US tariffs for pharmaceuticals ft.com/content/b5ed8b… via @ft #tariffs