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Pioneering UK Payment Model For Incentivizing Antibiotic Development Meets Major Milestone

 
• By Neena Brizmohun

Shionogi and Pfizer are now in commercial discussions after their antibiotics were recommended for use via the UK’s new subscription-style payment model, which will ensure a fixed annual fee is paid to companies regardless of how many prescriptions are issued. The UK is urging other countries to offer similar incentives to help beat global antimicrobial resistance.

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New payment model is designed to encourage companies to develop new antibiotics • Source: Alamy

Fetcroja (cefiderocol) and Zavicefta (ceftazidime–avibactam) could soon become the first antibiotics to be made available in England as part of an innovative subscription-style payment model that aims to incentivize the development of novel antimicrobials and tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

The new UK payment model, the first of its kind in the world, will ensure that a fixed annual fee...

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