EMA Begins Setting Up New Bodies To Tackle Drug Shortages

Workshop To Be Held To Explain Agency's Expanded Role

A new EU regulation has come into effect, giving the European Medicines Agency wider powers to monitor, prevent and manage shortages of medicines and medical devices in public health emergencies. A number of steering groups and other bodies and networks are being set up to put the new systems into action.

The European Medicines Agency's building in Amsterdam
The EMA now has a wider role in dealing with medicines shortages in the EU • Source: Alamy

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