UK Life Sciences Vision Sets Out 10-Year Strategy
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The UK Government has published a bold new strategy to build on the successes of the Covid-19 response within the life sciences sector, and to tackle major long-term healthcare issues such as dementia and cancer. It promises to accelerate the delivery of life-changing innovations to patients.
The strategy, titled Life Sciences Vision, was co-developed with businesses and industry experts to set out a healthcare mission for the next decade. The focus will be on preventing, diagnosing, monitoring, and disease in the early stages. The development and adoption of new drugs, diagnostics, medical technology, and digital tools will be a priority.
In particular the pace of research into dementia treatment will be expediated. Currently, more than 920,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, and this is expected to rise to over a million by 2024. The majority of these people are over the age of 65, but it is thought that 40,000 people under 65 also have a dementia diagnosis.
The Life Science Vision will also seek to enable early diagnosis and treatment of cancer and work on the development of cancer vaccines. Treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease will also be fore-fronted. Other strategies seek to reduce mortality rates from respiratory diseases, and increase the understanding of mental health conditions.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “We are indebted to the ingenuity of UK life sciences and its pioneers, with the discovery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the seamless collaboration between our scientists, industry, regulators and NHS saving millions of lives during the pandemic.
“We must make sure this is the norm and use this new way of working to search for life-changing breakthroughs against diseases such as cancer, dementia and obesity, as we have done with COVID.”
The strategy is part of the government’s wider levelling up agenda, which aims to reduce the inequalities between the richest and poorest parts of the country.
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