In this episode, Jack, Ollie, and Jen discuss a substantial investment package in the UK’s Life Sciences and manufacturing sectors, the role of an AI chatbot in bridging Europe\’s mental health care gap, and how Spain is reshaping pharmaceutical supply chains in Europe. 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, Europe, healthcare news, manufacturing, research, AI, chatbots, mental health, patient care, Spain, supply chain 

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• UK lacks plans to make pandemic vaccines quickly, MPs hear 
• Spring Budget puts UK on fast-track to becoming science and technology superpower 
• UK Spring Budget allocates funds to life sciences manufacturing 
• £360 million to boost British manufacturing and R&D 
• ABPI response to the Budget 
• UK Chancellor trumpets £650m AstraZeneca investment 
• Meet the AI chatbot therapists filling the gaps in Europe’s mental health care shortfall 
• Mental health services facing ‘vicious cycle’ workforce issue 
• A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services 
• Closing the accessibility gap to mental health treatment with a personalized self-referral chatbot 
• A child in Poland has to wait 238 days to see a psychiatrist, activist says 
• From ‘crisis’ to ‘pandemic’: mental health in Europe 
• Europe\’s mental health crisis: Which country uses the most antidepressants? 
• Belgium leads the charge on the EU’s medicines reshoring plans 
• EU capitals propose Chips Act for medicines 
• Onshoring and global health – has the pandemic sent globalisation into reverse? 
• France\’s Emmanuel Macron seeks to relocate domestic production of key drugs to avoid shortages 
• Barcelona identified as Europe’s second-best hub for biotech investment 
• Moderna opens international centre for analytical excellence in Madrid 
• Spain showing great pharma potential as Barcelona named Europe’s No.2 hub for biotech investment 
• Spain Has All the Right Elements To Become a Fast-Growing Life Science Hub 
• Spain’s plan to become Europe’s pharmaceutical epicentre 

Panel – Jack Young, Jen Burke, Ollie May

Research & Production – Jack Young, Karan Pandya, Ollie May

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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