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When does your employer pay you for your toil? For the Brits reading this post it is likely to be the 25^th of each month; I’ve been paid on this day since my first post-graduation job as a research microbiologist in 1995. Non-UK resident readers will have a different nationally recognised date. In Germany it is the 30^th and in Portugal it can be any day between 1^st to the 8^th of the month. Our U.S. friends often get paid weekly; imagine that monthly paid folk! Think about how that would change the way you manage your money such as deciding when to pay the mortgage. If you have a regular pay structure, you can manage your finances with a degree of confidence.

Uncertainty around when, how or even if things are paid is never a good thing, especially if you are investing heavily and not seeing your return for years to come. This is exactly how global pharmaceutical businesses find themselves when faced with the UK and a future scheme called value-based pricing (VBP).

 

[Read more…] about UK and value-based medicine pricing: Pay day cannot come too soon

Today’s blog comes to us from GLOBALHealthPR partner in Argentina, Paradigma PEL Comunicación.

 

Caught between Frankenstein and an unfathomable labyrinth. That is how many Latin-Americans feel when navigating their country’s health system, explained prominent Argentinean health systems expert Dr. Rubén Torres, former Area Manager of Health Systems based on Primary Health Care of the Pan American Health Organization. (PAHO) during a recent journalist training session in Buenos Aires.

[Read more…] about Frankenstein and the Labyrinth: Common Features of Health Systems in Latin America

Today’s post comes to us from our GLOBALHealthPR partner in the United Kingdom, Aurora Healthcare Communications.

In England, we often hear that the National Health Service is the envy of the world. But is it really?

To find out, we decided to contact GLOBALHealthPR to ask the partners in the network about their perceptions of the NHS, comparisons with their own healthcare system and which health system is deemed the worst in the developed world. [Read more…] about Local Value Propositions for a Global Marketplace – What Does Pharma Need to Do?