Ian Schofield
Executive Editor, Pharma Insights
UK
+36 year(s) experience
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The UK regulator, the MHRA, has published guidance on its new integrated pathway for innovative drug approvals, which it says is intended to bring together partners including health technology assessment agencies, health care bodies and patient organizations to offer “sustained collaboration” with drug developers.
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Regulations that would allow the UK MHRA to work as a standalone regulator in the event of a no-deal Brexit have been laid before parliament. They cover a host of areas including new drug approval procedures, conversion of existing EU marketing authorizations into UK ones, pediatric and orphan exclusivities, imported medicines, and regulatory fees.
Topic Pharma-Brexit Brexit Regulation
Generics Bulletin
A second wave of COVID-19 infection later this year would put even greater pressure on drugs used in patients hospitalized with serious respiratory problems, a new report warns.
Topic Coronavirus Distribution
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Building more cold chain warehouses, finding alternative sources of medicine supplies, and halting parallel exports to mitigate product shortages. Just some of the ideas for tackling the consequences of a no-deal Brexit scenario put forward by industry representatives at a recent parliamentary committee hearing.
Topic Pharma-Brexit Brexit EU
Medtech Insight
As negotiators struggle to reach agreement on the future UK/EU relationship following Brexit, suppliers have been warned to expect major hold-ups next year for medical products crossing the English Channel.
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Could the UK carry on playing a part in the European Medicines Agency from 2021? Much will depend on the complex negotiations on the future relationship that are expected to kick off in March.
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From next year, owners of trademarks and other rights in the European Economic Area will be able to prevent the parallel export of medicines from the UK to the EEA. But those owning similar rights in the UK will not be able to stop parallel imports from EEA countries.
Topic EU Pharma-Brexit Brexit
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The UK medicines regulator has written to pharmaceutical companies outlining the actions they need to take regarding products with a centralized EU approval that will be converted to Great Britain marketing authorizations next year.
Topic Pharma-Brexit Brexit Approvals
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Following a Brexit-induced delay over the summer, England's HTA body NICE has come up with a concrete set of proposals that it says will help it “robustly and efficiently” evaluate innovative technologies such as advanced therapies, histology-independent cancer treatments, and technologies for rare diseases. Industry bodies have welcomed the plans, which have just been put out for consultation.
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Updated guidance from the UK regulator, the MHRA, outlines the rules on orphan drug applications, criteria and exclusivity periods that will apply in Great Britain after the end of the Brexit transition period
Topic Pharma-Brexit Rare Diseases
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Proposals from NICE now under consultation are intended to boost the health technology assessment body’s efficiency, improve transparency and governance, and raise the quality of its guidance
Topic Regulation EU
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Delegates at this week’s TOPRA conference heard the European Commission’s “holistic” vision of what it would like to achieve through its pharmaceutical strategy, including incentives for innovation, security of the supply chain, product shortages, real world evidence and big data, and the availability and affordability of medicines.
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The UK medicines regulator has a “unique opportunity” to evaluate the systems it operates and to “do things differently", according to its long-term interim head, June Raine.
Topic Policy & Regulation Brexit
Generics Bulletin
Companies marketing dexamethasone in Europe have been told they can use a CHMP endorsement to request the addition of COVID-19 to their product license.
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UK vote to leave the EU opens the prospect of years of negotiations over the union's future relationship with one of its most valued member states.
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