BRIAN ROSE: What Is 'QALY' & Why You Need To Know More About It - Professor David Miles
How NHS evaluates cost of treatment & cost of lockdown
Hancock has stated that MHRA is independent. Preliminary skim of docs shows:
The Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department of Health (the Department) and is a government trading fund. The main function of the Agency is to regulate medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research. The Agency also has an important role in bringing innovation safely to patients as rapidly as possible. The MHRA’s specific functions include:Statutory functions
• operating a system of licensing, classification, monitoring and enforcement to ensure that medicines for human use, sold or supplied in the UK, are of an acceptable standard;
• discharging statutory obligations, including those of the UK’s EU competent authority, for medical devices and contributing to developing the safety and performance standards that support this work;
• ensuring compliance with statutory obligations relating to the investigation of medicines in clinical trials and assessing notifications or proposals for clinical trials from manufacturers of medical devices;
• operating and contributing to systems at both UK and EU level of post-marketing surveillance for medicines and medical devices, taking action to safeguard public health;
• ensuring compliance, in the UK, with statutory obligations relating to the manufacture, distribution, sale, labelling, advertising and promotion of medicines;
• designating and monitoring the performance of notified bodies that audit manufacturers of moderate and high-risk medical devices, and maintaining a register of all manufacturers placing medical devices on the UK market;
• devising and drawing up standards for the purity and potency of biological substances and designing appropriate test procedures;
• preparing, approving, holding and distributing standard preparations of biological substances;• providing, or arranging for, the provision of laboratory testing facilities for the testing of biological substances, carrying out such tests, examining records of manufacture and quality control and reporting on the results;
• carrying out, or arranging for the carrying out, of research in connection with biological standards and control function;
• regulating the safety and quality of blood and blood components;
• managing the activities of the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) and work undertaken by BP staff relating to the European Pharmacopeia;
• discharging the functions of the UK Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority (GLPMA);
• regulating consumer e cigarettes in line with the Tobacco Products Direcive
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/507765/DH_and_MHRA_Framework_Agreement_A.pdf
That treatment looks uncomfortable. Kek