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Medicine and medical device pricing and reimbursement in Netherlands
2 March 2023 - Since the Netherlands is a Member State of the European Union, it has implemented the European ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Sep 2022
Doctors, patients protest at plans to cap medicine prices
23 September 2022 - Doctors, pharmacists and patients organisations are angry about government plans to cut spending on medicine, which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2021
Dutch advisory group says Zolgensma shouldn’t be covered unless Novartis halves price
10 May 2021 - In a challenge to Novartis, a Dutch advisory body has recommended that the government not cover ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2020
Did a pharma trade group try to sabotage a Dutch government report on compulsory licensing?
7 July 2020 - Dutch government commission on compulsory licensing was nearly sabotaged last month after one of its members ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2019
DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?
15 October 2019 - If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch health minister threatens to name and shame pharma over prices
28 August 2019 - In an unusual move, the Netherlands health minister wrote an open letter to the pharmaceutical industry ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Dutch minister warns big pharma to come clean on drugs prices
27 August 2019 - Health minister Bruno Bruins has warned the pharmaceuticals industry that he considers the way drugs firms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2019
Taxpayers are funding expensive drug development, report says
10 May 2019 - The Dutch government invests tens of millions of euros every year in small biotech companies which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Apr 2019
AbbVie's massive Humira discounts are stifling Netherlands biosimilars
2 April 2019 - Could a drug's price ever be too low? That’s what some market-watchers are asking in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Mar 2019
Dutch join backlash at expensive drugs by making their own
8 March 2019 - In a radiation-proof room at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Emar Thomasa sits behind shielded glass ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2019
Pharma lashes out at the Netherlands over drug pricing policies
6 November 2019 - As the Dutch government gets more aggressive about controlling the cost of medicines, the pharmaceutical industry ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Feb 2019
Novartis and Vertex battle the Netherlands government over pricing
4 February 2019 - Two large drug makers are squaring off against the Netherlands as drug pricing increasingly becomes a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2019
Big pharma firms criticise Dutch campaign to slash drug prices
5 February 2019 - Foreign pharmaceuticals companies in the Netherlands say they are ‘concerned’ that the government is undermining the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jan 2019
Minister to ‘talk to Novartis’ after five-fold cancer drug price hike
10 January 2019 - Health minister Bruno Bruins is planning to talk to Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis this week about ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2018
Health insurer takes pharma giant to court for ‘evergreening’
20 September 2018 - Health insurance group Menzis is taking legal action against Astra Zeneca, accusing the pharmaceuticals firm of ...