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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Andrew Gregory

Radical plans to transform NHS drawn up at drug firms and No 10 roundtable

Vials on a pharmaceutical company production line.
Vials on a pharmaceutical production line. New proposals, revealed by a freedom of information request, include rewarding NHS staff for speeding up drug trials. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images

A list of radical ideas for transforming the NHS, including lifting safeguards blocking startups’ access to patient data, and nurses being incentivised to help speed trials, was privately drawn up by drug and healthcare companies in talks with senior No 10 advisers.

The proposals, which can be revealed after a freedom of information request, emerged in private roundtables convened by a taskforce appointed by Boris Johnson to generate ideas for cutting supposed red tape after Brexit.

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