May 2026 • PharmaTimes Magazine • 4-5


Contents


Features

Patients are missing strategy – pharma must seize the day


From listening to action – turning medical insights into patient impact


How AI has strengthened scalability across mid-sized pharma


Who’s really in charge in the NHS? Navigating a disrupted system

Modernisation need in clinical data analysis and regulatory submission


Analysis

GLP-1 drugs – why faster progress won’t fix pharma’s challenges


Why is pharma determined to give AI to patients and HCPs?


Could seven-day timelines could be obsolete by 2028?


Counting the cost of pharma’s change management burden


SmartPeople

14.
Pharma chameleon
Digital maturity gap – how AI is reshaping pharma operations


20.
Real time
Making partnership working business as usual


24.
Kylie’s greatest hits
Building trust with patient organisations – Jess is back


36.
Starting over
There some cool new folk in town and they mean business


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