Belgian health minister Frank Vandenbroucke at #PoliticoHealthcare Summit in Brussels: By constantly driving down prices of basic and essential medicines, European authorities and governments have created dangerous supply oligopolies.
Second day of the #PoliticoHealthcare summit in Brussels. Looking forward to Frank Staud presenting key insights from the #STADAHealthReport. With data from 32,000 European citizens in 16 countries, this unique research is ideally suited to inform health policy decisions.
Adrian van den Hoven of @MedicinesforEurope at #PoliticoHealthcare Summit in Brussels: European Commission communication today on medicines shortages is to be welcomed, especially planned guidelines on public procurement. https://t.co/eeRKsmI7to
MEP Christian Busoi at #PoliticoHealthcare summit in Brussels: fiscal incentives are needed to increase European production of #generic medicines. Says he is broadly supportive of the European Commission‘s proposals to modulate pharma exclusivities and incentives.
At our Conference Comm. @SKyriakidesEU just announced “We are open to explore a more long-term approach with a Critical Medicines Act”
This act together, with the Pharma package, will build a 🇪🇺sustainable ecosystem to prevent shortages & delivering on security of supply
Tilly Metz MEP at @LivePOLITICO event on patient access to medicines: "Something needs to change. We need to rethink to prevent shortages." #ProtectingMedicines
Important discussion hosted by @LivePOLITICO and @POLITICOEurope on how best to protect patient access to off-patent medicines amid rapidly rising costs of producing and packaging essential therapies. Rigid price controls threaten to make several medicines economically unviable.
STADA welcomes EU approval for the treatment of a rare, progressive autoimmune disease of the kidney. The European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorization for the treatment of primary immunoglobulin (IgA) nephropathy (IgAN) in adults.
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Removing barriers to market entry for #generic and #biosimilar medicines is a key objective of the pharmaceutical legislative package that the EU Commissioner intends to bring forward by the end of this year, Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas told @MedicinesforEurope.
Medicines for Europe President Elisabeth Stampa opening the association's annual conference in Sitges, Spain: For every €1 invested in medicines, costs for other medical internventions such as surgery are reduced by at least €2. #ACCESSFORALL#MedsforEU22
STADA Group is delighted to be supporting Medicines for Europe in its annual conference in Sitges, Spain. Looking forward to later today moderating a panel on measures to prevent and mitigate medicines shortages. #ACCESSFORALL