UK Supply Chain Disruption Due To Closed Borders Remains A Concern

Manufacturers Are Seeking To Maintain Prices Despite COVID-19 Crisis

The BGMA has emphasized the importance of prioritizing transport of medicines across borders, at the same time as it has praised decisions by the UK competition authority and European Commission to relax rules on co-ordinating to facilitate the supply of medicines.

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Manufacturers rise to the challenge of supply chain disruption • Source: Shutterstock

Warwick Smith, director general of the British Generic Manufacturers Association and the British Biosimilars Association, says that although supply-chain difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic appear to be easing, “the significant rise in demand for medicines alongside other challenges in the operating environment would mean that manufacturers will have to deal with new and different issues to ensure that patients are able to access their medicines.”

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, supply-chain disruption has become a concern, whether due to closed borders in Europe or elsewhere, or the reduction of long-haul

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