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Tea42's avatar

Excellent Dr Rees! This is a multi headed snake, to be sure. Can’t wait to read it.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

It's expensive Tea42, £85, but this is something I wrote n 2023: COVID Supply Chains: Fact not Fiction - Amazon link: https://amzn.eu/d/1hmU9Dw

It's all you need to know :O)

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Markker's avatar

Congratulations!

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Thanks Markker! just saw it on the Waterstones website, but not released until November: https://www.waterstones.com/book/transforming-the-pharmaceutical-supply-chain/hedley-rees/9781394244126

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Alison Conley's avatar

Thanks Hedley and will definitely purchase the book!

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Hedley Rees's avatar

are you sure? it's very expensive?

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Alison Conley's avatar

Maybe you will offer it in paperback;-)

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Hedley Rees's avatar

that's Amazon UK, not sure where you are?

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Alison Conley's avatar

Your books are worth the money especially when you factor in medical bills resulting from the Covid vaccine injuries and other pharma interventions! I’m beginning to think it’s an absolute must have for every family.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Hi Alison - next best thing is this: COVID Supply Chains: Fact not Fiction Paperback, https://amzn.eu/d/cTv7ElP

...written for people like you!

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Alison Conley's avatar

I’m in the US.

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Hedley Rees's avatar

This is the beginning of the Introduction to the expensive book:

"Introduction

Setting a Transformative Agenda

This book has been written with an overarching purpose in mind—transformation of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

With the achievement of such a purpose, the intention is to bring to the world medicinal products (drugs) that are, as a minimum, safe and as free from side-effects as is humanly possible. Working on the product of the supply chain is the only way that can be achieved. The reality is that no matter how much scientific thinking goes into the concept of a new drug, that is not what enters the patient’s body. What enters the body is the product that was produced by the supply chain.

That is not to say that science, especially applied science, is unimportant in the development of new drugs. It is more the recognition that a mix of skills and competencies are required to bring any physical product to market. As a product moves through its development lifecycle, the mix of competencies transfers from science towards the engineering disciplines.

This reality is outlined by the world-renowned systems thinker Peter Checkland, in his book Systems Thinking, Systems Practice where he comments:

Any purposeful human activity implies commitment to a particular ranking of values. Science implies the belief that the highest value attaches to the advancement of knowledge. Engineering and technology, on the other hand, prize most highly the efficient accomplishment of some defined purpose. Where the scientists ask: ‘have we learnt anything?’ the engineer and the technologist ask, ‘does it work?’

This is a theme that runs throughout this book, recognizing that a safe drug is wholly dependent on the integrity of the supply chain that produced it.

Moreover, it is not only the production supply chain that is vitally important. It applies to the physical storage and transportation of the materials consumed in the production supply chain, as well as distribution of finished products to their end destination.

Having said this, it is not in my power to make that happen, of course. However, the educational material presented here has the potential to catalyze such an outcome, should those passionate about getting behind the wheel of change choose to use it."

The entire book is 336 pages, in color, hardback and digital versions.

It will be possible to buy individual chapter(s) from the digital version (17 chapters in total).

These are the chapters critical thinking people would benefit most from reading:

4 Evidence of Serious Supply Chain Problems Emerge

5 Investigating Worrying Supply Chain Symptoms

6 Impact of the Systems Dynamic on Supply Chain Performance

7 The Outcome

Not long now to September 17!

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E. Grogan's avatar

Congratulations Mr. Hedley Rees! That is a HUGE effort, must have taken a long time to compile all of that. Sounds like a must read that people need to know about. Thank you for this enormous effort, hope it sells well!

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Hedley Rees's avatar

Thank you so much, E. Grogan! Yes, I've been calling this out inside the industry since 2011, when Wiley published this:

Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470920817

In late May 2023, the same commissioning editor emailed to ask if i would write a second book, but it had to be heavily nuanced - that is, balanced and evidence-based.

It will be two and a half years later that it publishes, but it kept me sane knowing that my version of events will be out in the public domain!

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E. Grogan's avatar

You have so much inside info, too, and that's very valuable, We the People need to know about that info, too. I wish more people who worked in Pharma would tell the public what they know, it would be very helpful. You've done so much to help us be informed, and I appreciate it.

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