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The drug prices review board was once a solution. It’s now a problem.
1 March 2023 - Anti-drug company activists are repeating ill-informed myths about controlling drug prices in Canada. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2023
Member of Canada’s drug pricing regulator quits over ‘lack of support’ for medicine cost reforms
23 February 2023 - A member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, Canada’s drug pricing regulator, has resigned over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2023
Germany proposes to fix shortages in certain medicines
15 February 2023 - Germany's health ministry on Tuesday vowed to fix shortages in medicines for children, antibiotics and cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2023
The EU butts heads with big pharma to make medicines cheaper
2 February 2023 - The bloc’s pharma reform aims to get new drugs to patients faster, for less money. But it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2023
UK's voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing and access (VPAS) faces a potential crisis
19 January 2023 - The UK has a “voluntary scheme for branded medicines, pricing, and access” or VPAS, which sets a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2023
AbbVie and Eli Lilly, two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, have sent a warning signal to the UK government by leaving the voluntary medicines pricing agreement in protest over increasingly punitive revenue clawbacks
16 January 2023 - AbbVie and Lilly have left the UK’s Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access, a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2022
Bayer’s Nubeqa receives MHRA approval to treat metastatic prostate cancer
28 November 2022 - The treatment will be made available immediately through an early access deal with NHS England. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Nov 2022
A tussle over medicines pricing is looming in Britain
15 November 2022 - Agreement to limit the size of the NHS drugs bill under strain. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Nov 2022
Implementation of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's proposed Guidelines will harm Canadian patients
10 November 2022 - Innovative Medicines Canada is calling on Health Canada to direct the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Nov 2022
New PMPRB guidelines proposed for assessing prices of patented medicines sold in Canada
4 November 2022 - Controversial amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations changing the basket of comparator countries considered by the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Nov 2022
1 November 2022 updates as part of the digital transformation of Authority Required (Written) PBS listings
1 November 2022 - From 1 November 2022, the PBS listings for certain medicines will be updated as part of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2022
PMPRB finds ultra-rare drug Procysbi is excessively priced
26 October 2022 - On 1 September 2022, a Panel of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board issued a decision that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2022
Cheaper medicines legislation passed
27 October 2022 - The Australian Government’s legislation, which will see millions of Australians pay 29% less for scripts with the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2022
Germany significantly tightens drug pricing and reimbursement laws
26 October 2022 - The German regulation of pricing and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals is probably one of the most complicated legal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2022
PBS minimum stockholding requirements
21 October 2022 - Amendments made by the National Health Amendment Act 2021 give effect to the commitments in the new ...