I don’t want to pre-judge the result, but the health economic paper will hopefully achieve this.” Other upcoming research “We need to show that cannabis can be introduced to the NHS at net-zero cost, which I think will be the case, however, we still need to prove it. “The health economic study will be hugely important,” he commented. The study is still looking for part of the funding needed in order to get underway as soon as possible.Ĭhair of the CIC, Professor Mike Barnes, said this research would be vital in the drive towards wider NHS access to medical cannabis.
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The study, which will be led by the University of York, will include a comparison of the costs of medical cannabis with standard chronic pain treatments, and a consideration of cost and outcomes over a one-year time period.ĭr Anne Katrin Schlag, head of research at Drug Science chair of the research sub-group, provided an update on the workings of the research group at the CIC annual general meeting, which was held on Thursday 15 September. It is hoped that the tool will be able to demonstrate the viability of prescribing cannabis on the NHS under different scientific assumptions.
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The research sub-group of the Cannabis Industry Council (CIC), has been working on developing a full health economic analysis on medical cannabis and chronic pain, which it expects to prove that introducing cannabis to the NHS will be cost-effective.Īn early economic modelling tool will be used to consider the costs, resource use and utility associated with prescribing medical cannabis to treat chronic pain. Researchers in the UK are hoping to fund a major health economic study which could demonstrate the cost benefits of making cannabis more widely available on the NHS. So, I urge any trustees who haven’t made the pledge to find out how by visiting TPR’s website.Researchers in the UK are hoping to demonstrate how medical cannabis could be introduced into the NHS at “net-zero” cost. With increases in the cost of living continuing to make savers potentially more vulnerable to scams, trustees’ role as a first line of defence may never have been more necessary. That’s why, throughout the summer we’ve called on those who have made the pledge, but not self-certified, to follow through on their commitment by completing the self-certification process. We’ve already had more than 500 organisations and schemes make the pledge or self-certify that they meet its scam beating standards and, as a result, we believe around 16 million pension pots are now better protected.īut it’s not enough. I explained we needed industry to lead the way, both in thinking of innovative ways to beat scammers and by trustees and administrators doing everything they could to ensure savers are protected.Īlmost two years ago we launched our Pledge to Combat Pension Scams, which offered trustees the opportunity to publicly demonstrate their commitment to keeping savers safe from scams. When we launched our scam-beating plan, I was clear that the job of protecting savers could not done by TPR alone. TPR’s scams strategy spells out our ambition is to create a world where everyone is informed of the risk and protected against pension scams.