The ABPI has today announced that Catherine Meaden has been appointed as the organisation’s new Director of Communications with immediate effect. She will lead the communications department and will be responsible for the ABPI’s engagement with government, NHS, media, patient groups and wider the healthcare community.Read more

Commenting on the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will regulate electronic cigarettes as medicines in the UK from 2016, the ABPI has issued the following statement.Read more

In response to the BMJ article 'Independent researchers should have right to publish trial results if original researchers don’t, campaigners say' published on 14 June 2013, the ABPI has issued the following statement.Read more

In response to Monday's Dispatches programme 'Diets, drugs and diabetes', the ABPI has issued the following statement.Read more

A major report released today highlights the urgent challenge facing eye health services and calls on NHS England to appoint a National Clinical Director for Eye Health.Read more

The second update of the Innovation Scorecard – which measures how well different parts of the NHS in England are using innovative new medicines – has today been published. Read more

The joint report by the NHS Confederation, National Voices and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges highlights once again the scale of the long-term funding challenges facing the NHS. The report also demonstrates starkly the need for radical thinking about how these financial challenges can be managed. Read more

The first ever ABPI Regional Event (South) took place on Friday 10 May in Reading where delegates from the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS learnt more about the ABPI's regional groups and joint working. Read more

Commenting on today’s news that Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are to be established across the NHS in England, Stephen Whitehead, Chief Executive of the ABPI, said: "I am delighted that the new AHSNs, which will help spread innovation throughout the NHS, have today been confirmed."Read more

ON Helix is a new translational research conference for the life science industry and academia which takes place on 9 July 2013 at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge. ABPI members will receive a 10% discount on registration.Read more