Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says she has signed off on a plan for an end-to-end review of Ireland’s system for approving access and funding for new drugs and medical treatments.
The review to take around six months and it would form part of wider efforts to ensure medicine reimbursement decisions are made within 180 days of an application being submitted by pharmaceutical companies.
“This builds on new framework agreement targeting that reimbursement decisions are made within 180 days versus where we currently sit at around 600 days for oncology treatments. Getting from where we are to where we need to be requires exactly the kind of structural review that has now been commissioned.” UCAN Ireland
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