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Europe Writing in the DIA Global Forum’s special November 2022 issue on the Digital Virtuous Loop Karin Van Baelen and Susan Sandler – both of Janssen – and AbbVie’s Álmath Spooner look at Europe’s progress towards true real-world evidence integration and its potential impact on decision making across the healthcare continuum.…

France An early bronchiolitis outbreak has put French paediatric hospital services under pressure and forced the government to react with the provision of EUR 150 million in emergency funds, but this crisis is by no means the first for French healthcare. France’s healthcare system, based on a statutory health insurance (SHI)…

Italy Angelini Pharma CEO Pierluigi Antonelli has announced that he is leaving his position with immediate effect, posing the question of what comes next for the leading Italian mid-cap.   Antonelli, profiled by PharmaBoardroom earlier this year, had been in position since 2019 having previously worked his way through the ranks…

Europe Victor Mendonça, chair of the Generic Market Access Committee at Medicines for Europe, outlines why patient access to medicines is at risk due to intense price pressure and unprecedented inflation and proposes ways to tackle this. The COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine have caused unprecedented challenges for Europe,…

Latvia Latvia has seen some major breakthroughs in recent years: more innovative medicines are available to patients than ever before; the market for commercial, OTC and reimbursable medicinal products has achieved new heights, and we are in a strong position to continue this trend. What has been accomplished and what challenges…

Greece A pharma market snapshot of Greece, a country whose life expectancy ranks well above the European Union member states’ average. Greece also boasts a relatively high pharmaceutical expenditure compared to its European neighbors and has seen pharmaceutical sales, led by exports, grow exponentially in recent years.   Total Pharmaceutical Expenditure…

Italy The electoral victory of the centre-right coalition in Italy should see far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni replace former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi as Prime Minister at the end of October 2022, becoming the first woman to ever hold the role. This spirit of change seems also to have permeated…

Europe The EU biopharmaceutical ecosystem is currently languishing in third place globally. EUCOPE’s Alexander Natz discusses how the European Commission’s most fundamental review of the pharmaceutical legislation in decades is supposed to change that but in reality, is discouraging innovation and competitiveness.   The European Commission’s ambition to future-proof the EU…

Italy As the European Union’s largest beneficiary of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) package, aimed at boosting the EU’s economy following the COVID-19 pandemic, Italy will receive some EUR 235 billion in grants and loans over the lifetime of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). With respect to healthcare, the…

Italy Dr Nicola Normanno, the Director of the Translational Research Department of one of Italy’s national cancer institutes, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, and president of the Italian Cancer Society explains Italy’s progress with next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the creation of molecular tumour boards. He also discusses the need…

Europe Pierre Meulien, Executive Director- Innovative Health Initiative, presents the public-private joint undertaking that boasts a total budget of EUR 2.4 billion and aims to build on the work of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to boost collaboration between the European pharmaceutical and related industries and the European Commission.   The Innovative…

Italy Guerbet’s Alessandro Bocci – General Manager Italy & Iberia – describes the nearly 100-year-old company’s firm position in the field of contrast media for radiology and its plans for developing a portfolio in artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, he outlines how the Italy, Spain and Portugal cluster made its way…