Hedley Rees' forty years' experience in the pharma industry has led to this exposé of an industry in denial. Uncompromising on facts and evidence, Taming The Big Pharma Monster stands out in a sea of books trying to skewer Big Pharma because it offers a practical solution. The author's experience is vast. He entered the pharma industry in 1980. Hedley Rees is not focused purely on problems but on exploring the solutions.The pharmaceutical industry is in meltdown. We constantly hear of eye-watering drug prices, shortages, litigation over damaging side effects, dodgy marketing practices, economic adulteration, consent decrees, counterfeiting, patent games, price gouging, and much, much more... How can this be right? The short answer is, it's not. But, how did it get to this? What can be done about it? This book answers those questions.The truth is that to bring a medicine to market, there needs to be intense collaboration between many players, and this collaboration MUST be stage-managed from the start as a complete programme of inter-related activities. We shall prove that creating a medicine should be no different to developing a plane, car, aero-engine or silicon chip.In proving that, our ambition then is to convince the world that there is not a moment to lose. The wheels of change must begin to turn with ever greater velocity as patients and Friends of Medicines Modernisation (FOMM) are empowered to take on the challenge.

Hedley Rees is managing consultant at PharmaFlow Limited, a UK based consultancy specialising inoperations and supply chain management within life science. Assignments span early stage clinicaltrial supply chains up to complex multi-product supply networks covering global territories. Hedleyheld senior positions at Bayer UK, British Biotech, Vernalis, Johnson & Johnson and OSIPharmaceuticals. His skill set covers the range of competencies from strategic procurement,production and inventory control, distribution logistics, information systems and improvement.As an expert in production systems design and implementation, Hedley is a zealous advocate of theregulatory modernisation frameworks of FDAs 21st Century Modernization (Janet Woodcock MD)and the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH).He graduated from the University of Wales as a production engineer and holds an Executive MBAfrom Cranfield University School of Management. Hedley lives in Bridgend, South Wales.