Ireland Relaxes Stance On Biosimilar Switching

But The National Biosimilars Policy Is Still Awaited

The Irish medicines regulator, the HPRA, is proposing to revamp its guidance on biosimilar medicines and to take a more flexible attitude to biosimilar interchangeability and switching. The guidance is expected to feed into a future national biosimilars policy.

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Biosimilars can be prescribed interchangeably with the originator drug in Ireland • Source: Shutterstock

Ireland’s Health Products Regulatory Agency has relaxed its position on biosimilar interchangeability and switching, saying that once biosimilars have been authorized for marketing, they can be used interchangeably with the reference product or with other biosimilar medicines of that reference product.

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