New WHO Access Platform Could Mean Tiered Pricing In Europe

New platform for finding solutions to increase access to expensive medicines should ensure sustainability of health care systems and pharmaceutical industry and could include tiered pricing models.

A new multi-stakeholder platform run by the European region of the World Health Organization could be an opportunity to bring forward industry proposals on improving access to medicines, including a new framework for tiered pricing and a commitment to launch new products in every EU market, says the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations.

This week some 53 countries agreed to work together as part of a multi-stakeholder platform to “improve access to effective,...