UK Experimental AMR Payment Program “On Track”

Two Antibiotics To Be Identified For Assessment By Year-End

Designers of the UK’s experimental antibiotic payment system aim to identify two drugs later this year which will then undergo a novel technology assessment in 2021.

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UK trials world's first ‘subscription’ payment model for novel antibiotics • Source: Shutterstock

Health authorities in the UK remain on track with their program for testing a "pull" reward incentive mechanism as a way to both ensure adequate supply of antibiotics - a drug class that is fast ebbing away – while stimulating innovation for new antimicrobial drugs, a process that will also use health technology evaluations of the added value from any new antimicrobial, one of the project’s team leaders told Scrip.

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