France: Repatriating Drug Production Among Actions In ‘Roadmap’ For Tackling Shortages

The key themes of France’s latest initiative on shortages are repatriating the production of certain essential medicines and their active substances, earlier detection of potential supply problems, and more effective and transparent communications with all actors in the supply chain.

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Allowing pharmacists to substitute medicines is one way of addressing drug shortages • Source: Shutterstock

Many medicines may be in short supply, but there is no shortage of ideas about how to deal with them. A case in point is France, where the government has just come up with yet another set of proposals in the form of a new “roadmap” to 2027.

Among the measures envisaged are better ways of anticipating shortages, a list of “medicines of major therapeutic interest” (MMTIs), and...

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