A new real-world evidence (RWE) program, set to be launched by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, will see innovative drug developers benefit from private meetings with representatives from the agency and England’s health technology assessment (HTA) body, NICE.
UK’s MHRA To Offer Private Meetings For Innovative RWE Strategies
The MHRA’s new scientific dialog program will offer drug developers “closed-door meetings” that will offer “confidential, commercially sensitive discussion” with its staff to help them “refine” their real-world evidence generation strategies.

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