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Denmark Jørgen Schøler Kristensen explains the role of the Danish Medicines Council, providing guidance about new medicines for use in the Danish hospital sector. Kristensen also tackles the thorny issues of price considerations, assessing the long-term efficacy of innovative new therapies, and working collaboratively with private industry.   There is a…

Europe Writing in the August edition of DIA’s Global Forum, Sanofi R&D’s Thomas Kühler outlines the bumpy journey towards the full adoption of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) across Europe.   More than three years ago, in January 2018, the European Commission published a draft Regulation on Health Technology Assessment for the EU.…

Europe The journey of EUnetHTA began back in 2004, when the European Commission and Council of Minsters requested the establishment of a sustainable European network on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as “a political priority”, work on which was properly initiated in 2005 when a group of 35 organizations came together to…

Europe Niklas Hedberg outlines the role of EUnetHTA as both a network and project built up of national HTAs in Europe, the potential for a continent-wide mandate on health technology assessment, the integration of RWE into decision making processes, and how EUnetHTA has adapted to cell and gene therapies.   In…

Opinion Mike Glover, Vice President Global Head of Access and Pricing Strategy Oncology at GSK outlines that while new mathematical approaches to health technology assessment (HTA) have been hugely beneficial, a broader approach that includes the insights of individual people is necessary to truly drive forward better health outcomes.   The…

Belgium Francis Arickx, country coordinator of Belgium for the Beneluxa Initiative, introduces the project and its mission to help shape a unified healthcare policy approach between its member countries through activities such as horizon scanning and health technology assessments.   Beneluxa is a first collaborative step towards more balance in the…

Czech Republic Tomáš Dolezal, president of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes (ISPOR) Czech Regional Chapter and director of the Institute of Health Economics and Technology Assessment (iHETA), gives an overview of the missions and goals of these two institutes and the pivotal role of health technology assessment (HTA) in the…

Sweden Niklas Hedberg is both chair of EUnetHTA Executive Board (a branch of the European Commission) and chief pharmacist at the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV). EUnetHTA aids European Union member states in conducting Health Technology Assessments (HTAs). Hedberg outlines the function EUnetHTA plays in the European Commission along…

Lithuania Ruta Pumputiene examines recent regulatory reform in Lithuania, as the Baltic nation attempts to introduce a holistic HTA mechanism for the evaluation of what to include on the country’s reimbursable medicines list.   It is not yet clear whether the new procedure will complicate and damage Lithuanian patients’ access to…

France In an exclusive interview, Dominique Le Guludec, president of the French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS)), offers her insider comments on the changes in French healthcare policy under President Emmanuel Macron.   The integration of this entire sector completely resonates with our vision of a comprehensive…

Portugal Jose Aranda da Silva, the first President of INFARMED and an expert on the Portuguese healthcare sector, comments on the successes of the sector since the crisis and how SiNATS (National System of Health Technology Assessment) is only the start. In addition, he stresses the importance of market access and…

India Newly appointed commissioner of the Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) of the Indian state of Maharashtra, Dr. Pallavi Darade, shares her objectives to further consolidate the FDA’s positioning as a transparent, efficient and trusted regulatory institution by involving the industry in any consultation and make them an integral part of…