IMS Health, the healthcare technology, market access and healthcare informatics group, acquires HGS in the UK.
The deal sees HGS Europe’s founders Graeme and Angela McFarlane bring the market access services of HGS to the IMS Health UK team.
Together the McFarlanes bring more than 40 years’ experience in marketing, sales, consulting and senior management roles in the pharmaceutical industry at companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and MSD, and also in the pharmaceutical outsourcing, healthcare data and technology and private hospital sectors.
Established in 1998, HGS Europe works with clients to engage with NHS payers and secure patient access to innovative medicines, working across rare diseases with orphan drugs and in therapeutic areas such as oncology, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, respiratory and mental health.
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