2005, a pivotal year for Axis-Shield, with strong growth and profitability

The NHS is on the move -

“GPs will also be more accountable for taxpayers’ money through practice-based commissioning. Every GP will have an indicative budget from their Primary Care Trust (PCT) to pull services into the community where they are most convenient for patients and provide better value for money.” -



Through practice based commissioning (PBC),practices will have more freedom to determine the services that are made available to the local population. -

annex D is the appropriate read contained in the full document (quick link on left hand side) -
Health reform in England: update and next steps -


Although the UK market is very small compared to say the US and Japan etc, I believe that Afinion has the potential to play an interesting part in the evolving PCT’s and indeed the Pharmacy market, and represent a good bit of business for ASD in one of it’s home markets.