How Lilly Is Helping To Address The UK’s ‘Postcode Lottery’ For Cancer Drugs

Some innovative cancer drugs are not reaching eligible patients in the UK, despite securing positive reimbursement opinions from NICE. Eli Lilly explains how industry can be “part of the solution” through partnership initiatives.

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Lilly Is Helping Solve Capacity Issues With Partnerships • Source: Shutterstock

Innovative drugs that secure reimbursement in England must be made available to all eligible patients in the country via the National Health Service within three months of a positive health technology assessment from the HTA body, NICE.

But this is not the case, according to a 22 February

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