EU Health Technology Assessment needs to move up a gear, says pressure group

EU Today

9 January 2019 - The European Alliance for Personalised Medicine says it may seem to everyone that the whole debate on the European Commission’s proposals for enhancing EU-wide cooperation on health technology assessment has been like sitting in a traffic jam - going nowhere fast.

The alliance hopes though, that now that we are into 2019, there will be some movement. Although, it warns, don’t expect the green light required to fully unblock the road in respect of mandatory elements of joint clinical assessments."

Despite positivity from the European Economic and Social Committee, and the backing of the European Parliament for the mandatory parts of the proposal, several Member States have objected, some raising subsidiarity concerns in an area, healthcare, that comes down to closely guarded national competence.

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