RX-Info 🎉Happy 20th Birthday to us!🎂

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Rx-info is celebrating its 20^th birthday this December.

So we have survived 7 Prime Ministers (at last count), 4 American Presidents,  departure from Europe (checked the map), 23 NHS restructures and a pandemic since 2003 (N.B. one of these may be made up).

For those of you old enough to recall –  this was 2003

• “Where is the Love?” by the Black Eyed Peas was the biggest selling single (streaming was not available apart from maybe Napster) 
• December music included the No 1: “Leave Right Now” by Will Young and also Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) by The Darkness (and YouTube didn’t appear until 2 years later)
• Tony Blair was Prime Minister
• The use of hand-held mobile phones while driving was made illegal in the United Kingdom
• Space Shuttle Colombia broke up on re-entry
• U.S. and Britain launch war against Iraq
• Arsenal played Southampton in the FA cup winning 1-0 and went on to an undefeated season
• England won the Rugby World Cup and Worcester the league Cup (that JW drop goal)
• Olivia Rodrigo and Jude Bellingham were born
• Elf, Love Actually, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and School of Rock were released.

As we love our medicines data we thought a few comparative facts would be of interest:

• Total 2003 NHS spend (NIC) on medicines was £7.51 billion compare this to the £17.8 billion spent in 2022
• Current 12 months spend on hospital medicines was £9.9 billion (to end Nov 2023)

New medicines licensed in 2003:

And finally of note is that narcissism began circa 2010 evidenced by the fact that none of the Rx-info team have any selfies from this time 2003 (imagine!), but the team have been kind enough to share the following 20 year younger versions of themselves from actual photos!

To our team members, past and present and all our colleagues out there in the world of pharmacy and healthcare – Thank you and here’s to the future!