For the last year, Pfizer has been laying the groundwork to combat the looming competition against Lipitor, forging deals with insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and patients to meet or beat the price of its generic replacements.
Under the new regime at the CQC, set up following the February 2013 report into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS trust, inspection teams, including doctors, nurses, managers and patients, have appraised most of the country's hospitals, mental health and community services.
It will see doctors, managers and patients working together on safety.
We used strong structuration theory, Giddens' conceptualisation of expert systems, and sensitivity to other sociological perspectives on technology, institutions and professional values to examine the relationship between the external environment, the evolving technology and actions of human agents (GPs, administrators, managers and patients).
England's chief inspector of hospitals, Sir Mike Richards, said: "Of course we will be talking to doctors and nurses, hospital managers and patients in the hospital, but it is vital that we also hear the views of the people who have had care at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, or anyone who wants to share information with us.
Examples are health professionals, hospital managers and patients.
To achieve that will involve frontline clinicians working closely with managers and patient groups to agree priorities and then streamlining services to make them more efficient.
And risk managers and patient-safety personnel overwhelmingly report that lawsuit data have proved useful in efforts to identify and address error.
This is not a controversial point - it has almost universal agreement among health analysts, doctors, hospitals managers and patient groups, and is the conclusion of endless reports from NHS-supporting organisations such as the King's Fund and the Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales.
Using a responsive evaluation approach this study was based on interviews with participating stakeholders and transcripts of the CoP meetings with 13 professionals, project managers and patient representatives.
A total of 406 managers and patient safety coordinators replied to the survey.
