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PDC Healthcare
PDC Healthcare
PDC Healthcare is the Healthcare division
of the People Development Company, set up in 2000 with the primary aims of:
- Supporting and facilitating professionals and
organisations in the health service to thrive in the culture of continuous
change.
- Enhancing communication between healthcare professionals
and communities
- Empowering individuals to take responsibility for health
related matters.
- Enabling suppliers of goods and services to succeed in
the changing NHS environment
The PDC Healthcare team includes
pharmacists, prescribers and NHS managers as well as senior directors and
managers from companies who supply goods to the NHS. Our consultancy services
meet the standards set out by the Institute of Management Consultants. All our
training and coaching work meets nationally recognised standards as set by the
Management Charter Initiative, Training and Development NTO and Institute of
Sales and Marketing and the British Association for NLP.
Miriam
George, MSc MPNLP,
is the founder and Managing Director. Miriam
worked in large pharmaceutical companies for 11 years in roles where she
provided consultancy and training to colleagues and to the NHS. For the last
five years Miriam has lead the PDC Healthcare team in a variety of projects in
the NHS, GP surgeries, community pharmacy and with suppliers of medicines and
equipment.
PDC Healthcare -
background
The PDC Healthcare team is made up of experienced
pharmacists, prescribers and NHS managers as well as senior directors and
people with a highly successful track record in selling to the NHS. It is this
combination of the insider knowledge and perspective combined with excellent
commercial skills that we believe is key to our success.
Eighty percent
of our current projects are commissioned by the NHS and they include medicines
management, prescribing budget management, priority setting, reviews of
services, strategic development in Trusts and General Practice, Clinical
Governance, Expert patient programmes etc.
We also help a number of
pharmaceutical and equipment companies with acquisition/disposal, pre launch
activities, advisory boards, market research and article writing. We also help
with formulary activities, business cases and audits.
Looking at the
profiles of our pharmacists and prescribers, one can see the wealth of
information and expertise they can provide. You may have considered the
benefits of having professionals such as these working to achieve your goals.
Some of the services to suppliers include:
- Training and provision of guidance frameworks for
formulary activity
- Hands on help from with formulary activities
- Provision of evidence based reviews, audit tools and
business cases
- Writing and publishing articles
- Advisory Boards
- Developing Partnerships between the NHS and
Suppliers
- Peer to peer market research
PDC Healthcare, established in 2000, has a
strong track record of providing support services to grow pharmaceutical sales.
This includes support with formulary process, understanding local health
economies and how to influence them, market and competitor analysis and market
due diligence.
For more information:
www.the-pdc.com
PDC Healthcare - recent articles
The real priorities in the
current NHS
(Published 15 December 2005)
It is easy to take a
surf on the internet and look at the priorities stated in NHS policy and
strategy documents. However, does this really reflect the true picture on the
ground? What are the big issues for NHS customers at the moment? We raised this
question with over 70 customers during the last three months. They were from a
variety of roles in primary and secondary care.
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