Albert Schweitzer, MD
You receive a diagnosis. You may be confused, scared, upset - but you will also be the least informed person in the room when you are told what is wrong with you and what happens next.
You are expected to go home and take your medicine as and when told.
When you are treated, you are treated based on the outcomes of clinical trials, clinician experience and some insight into your lifestyle and history. You are treated as an average - on average, a patient like you will feel 'X%' better in'Y' time.
Your personal potential for wellness is not properly factored into your treatment.
42% of patients in the UK could not access their medicines in the local pharmacy in 2023*. Why? Because demand is measured (predominantly) by historical purchasing at pharmacy, not on true patient demand.
Your data does not follow you as you go from hospital to GP to pharmacist. The pharmacists is not aware of your diagnosis when you turn up with a prescription.
*Nearly half of patients struggle to get medicines, finds report - The Pharmacist
Because the statistics of what lack of personalisation drives are truly scary.
50%* of patients with a chronic disease diagnosis stop taking their medicine properly, or stop taking it altogether, within 12 months of diagnosis. Within 10 days of treatment starting, nearly a third of patients are knowingly or unknowingly non-adherent to their treatment. The NHS spends approximately £8 billion a year on medicine, this means that nearly £4 billion a year is wasted, or is not making people as well as it should.
42%** of patients in the UK could not get their medicine from their pharmacist in 2023. Drugs don't work if patients can't get them!
Clinical trials are one of the most important ways to give hope and better healthcare opportunity to patients who are ill. However, clinical trials have high levels of drop out and low adherence*** to protocols because the experience is not personalised enough. Clinical trials are only conducted in a community setting 10% of the time (meaning access is difficult to many patients)****, and the data standards used are inneficient, meaning data analysts spend 80% of their time cleansing data, ony 20% analysing it.
All of this could, and MUST be changed if we are going to have an efficient health service. Inverting the model, from top-down to 'Patient-Up' will enable personalisation of healthcare, lower costs to treat and better health outcomes for all.
* www.iqvia.com/-/media/iqvia/pdfs/uk/white-paper/iqvia-therapyadherence-wp-orb2377screen.pdf & Medication Adherence: A Call for Action - PMC (nih.gov)
** Nearly half of patients struggle to get medicines, finds report - The Pharmacist
*** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31204902/
**** Understanding Clinical Trials Cost Breakdown & How to Optimize it | Globant Blog
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I am passionate about championing the needs of patient and their rights to get quality healthcare when, where and how they need it . I have spent 30 years trying to get medicines to patients in the UK, Europe and Globally. I have led in Covid vaccine planning, Ukraine emergency supply and have restructured supply models in Europe and
I am passionate about championing the needs of patient and their rights to get quality healthcare when, where and how they need it . I have spent 30 years trying to get medicines to patients in the UK, Europe and Globally. I have led in Covid vaccine planning, Ukraine emergency supply and have restructured supply models in Europe and developing markets. In that time I have experienced a lot, but the most important thing I have learned is that the healthcare model everywhere is overburdened by bureaucracy and solutions are always focussed on repairing what already exists rather than building towards better.
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I am motivated by purposeful change, and have worked for over 20 years in sectoral and business transformation. This includes with all parts of the health system, public & private, research base and technology. And throughout my working life I have used data and analytics to drive decision-making.
The AI revolution is already powering personalised experiences through consumer marketing. In my recent past I have scoped and delivered big data & machine learning solutions to improve business results: strategy & investment, sustainability, inclusion, operations, and market forecasts (including disease and drug demand).
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