Powering the healthcare system – when should infrastructure investment take priority over new drugs?
- August 15, 2018
Healthcare is under substantial economic strain: with estimates that healthcare spending in OECD countries could increase to 6% of GDP by 20501. Reimbursement decisions for high-cost drugs are often the subject of public and political debate while less media attention is given to the funding of the overall healthcare infrastructure. However, is it in patients’ […]
Regulatory initiatives to accelerate market access – UK, Japan and USA edition
- May 25, 2016
Accelerated pathways are emerging in individual countries that are designed to speed therapies through the approvals process and onto the market for patients who have unmet needs. Following on from our EU focus, in this post we look at the key schemes to date, that are in place in the UK, Japan and USA to […]
Funding challenges of super-high-cost therapeutics
- March 29, 2016
Since the completion of the human genome project in 2003, researchers at the 1000 Genomes Project have sequenced over 2500 human genomes from 26 groups of people around the world; the genome of a human from around 430,000 years ago has been sequenced; and the UK plans to sequence 100,000 human genomes from NHS patients. […]