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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11704

17 January 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Health
OECD looks into accessibility and safety of medicines
Brussels, 16/01/2017 (Agence Europe)

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development advocates improvements in terms of the accessibility to health technologies and their safety.  In a report published on Monday 16 January, a day ahead of the health ministers' meeting, the OECD says that a rebalancing is needed between the power of negotiation of paying bodies and that of producers. 

The 230-page report notes that there is an ever-increasing number of expensive drugs. It highlights two trends: firstly, an...

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