Efforts to ease competition concerns could be having a positive impact on pharmaceutical companies’ willingness to make submissions for combination therapies to England’s health technology assessment (HTA) institute, NICE, according to a Pink Sheet analysis of NICE data.
Has Competition Reassurance Helped Counter Combination Woes In The UK?
The rate of non-submissions for combination therapies in England has been on a downward trend in the last two years.

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