Without swift action, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could end modern medicine as we know it. This would have a devastating impact on patients and their families and carers, the NHS, the economy and on global health security.
We cannot assume that everyone just automatically assumes research and development is a good thing.
Rather than a charter of exciting new ways to invade your privacy, their report is more an attempt to respond to Dean Acheson’s claim that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role.
With the right policies, the Government would attract more of the world’s most imaginative and inventive scientists, helping them build their own businesses here in the UK.
The Education Department treats universities like poorly performing secondary schools, and now intervenes in them so much that the ONHS may well propose bringing them into the public sector.
Post-pandemic complacency is threatening the competitiveness of the industry; fixing that would not only stimulate growth, but also deliver better outcomes for patients.
This new sector is one of the best opportunities on offer for levelling up our country for all – and delivering a post-Brexit success story.
The second part of a mini-series on ConservativeHome this week about how the Government can help Britain’s economy to grow faster.
Is he fated to be a fire-fighter, a leader grappling with crisis? Or can he find the political space to deliver a more personal message – perhaps to do with education?
At the Parliamentary event I hosted, Ruth March from AstraZeneca explained how precision medicine meant we could eradicate all deaths from cancer in her lifetime.
As a former Brexit Secretary, I know that we can use our Brexit freedoms to achieve incredible things. Changes to EU regulations in our five growth industries will mean that we can deliver the very best for our great country,
Investors in science and technology need to be able to rely on the assurance that we will not fall behind nations such as the US, Israel, Germany and South Korea in our investment to science.
Capital investment, human talent, and innovation activity are extremely mobile and impact positively on productivity, economic growth and public finances.
People need a sense of hope and optimism about their prospects. And one of the best ways for the new Prime Minister to deliver that credibly is indeed to show how they will grow the innovations which will make life better.
Whilst it’s whitepaper may be seen as loosey-goosey by some, it’s set out enough basic ground rules to allow these innovators to get on with it, within reasonable limits.