Speakers at a meeting in London examined the key provisions of the new voluntary pricing and access scheme, which replaced the PPRS at the beginning of January. The Pink Sheet spoke to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s Paul Catchpole about enhanced planning for the introduction of new treatments on the national health service, and the shape of the new “commercial flexibilities” intended to allow earlier patient access to innovation.
One of the most important features of the new UK voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS) is an enhanced horizon scanning and planning process that is expected to help the national health service prepare more effectively for the arrival of highly innovative treatments such as gene and cell therapies.
The scheme will also give companies and the NHS the flexibility to agree on more “creative” commercial arrangements that could...
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