The EU’s new health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, has outlined the commission’s plans for dealing with medicines access issues in the EU member states. They include completing the review of the EU pediatric and orphan legislation and developing a new strategic plan to tackle shortages and affordability problems next year.
The European Commission is working on a new plan for tackling the problem of medicines shortages and affordability, which should be ready by the end of 2020.
The plan will take account of the review of the EU pediatric and orphan legislation, which is expected to be...