BC province says it's leading Canada by promoting widespread biosimilar use. Re @JanssenGlobal's Remicade, @PharmaPinkSheet reports 5-10% use rate of biosimilar #infliximab in Canada after 4 years on market vs Norway (98%), UK (90%) & Scotland (85%). $$ https://t.co/ePPFSIJxZt
First application from a drug company for joint health economic assessment under new Swedish/Finnish/Norwegian pilot FINOSE expected soon, says TLV’s Niklas Hedberg #TOPRASym18
EU parliamentary negotiations step up on controversial new regulation for member states to cooperate on HTA. Next vote scheduled for Oct 3. DG SANTE’s Flora Giorgio tells #TOPRASym18 she hopes the text will be finalised during this or the next parliament
Europe's CMDh chair Laura Oliveira Santamaria urges industry to tell us the problems you face in meeting the Brexit deadline so we can find flexible solutions to avoid drug shortages #DIAEurope2018
EMA tells me there's been a big response to its survey from companies on how they are preparing for Brexit. It has info on 90% of drugs subject to the survey; results will be published soon #DIAEurope2018
Interesting session on experience with and lessons learned from EMA's 0070 clinical data publication more than one year after the transparency initiative went live #DIAEurope2018
We need to mitigate medicines #shortages before they happen. Now we're managing them when they happen. That's too late. Maggie Dolan of NHS Commercial Solutions at #RAC18.
2017 was very distressing year in UK in terms of #shortages of generic medicines. "Never seen anything like it," says Maggie Dolan of NHS Commercial Solutions at #RAC18.
Getting senior @NICEcomms official on board @ABPI_UK is a major deal for the UK trade association. There's not a lot Carole Longson doesn't know about #HTA. #pharma https://t.co/SlPJynikgJ