We look forward to becoming the number seven company worldwide in the pharmaceutical industry.

We see a possibility for the synergy of 6,000 jobs.

Here we will see that pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of pounds every year trying to change the treatment decisions of doctors: in fact, they spend twice as much on marketing and advertising as they do on the research and development of new drugs. Since we all want doctors to prescribe medicine based on evidence, and evidence is universal, there is only one possible reason for such huge spends: to distort evidence-based practice.

The administration has again and again and again been very beholden to the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, and been very reluctant to move legislation that can really make a difference to people.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

I think we're going to see further consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry. I think that's going to continue into 1999.