After several months of crisis, Medicines for Europe lays out some of the key lessons learned from COVID-19 for the future of pharmaceutical policy in Europe.
The COVID-19 outbreak in Europe has catalysed some long-standing issues in the functioning of pharmaceutical policy, as well as the impact this can have on patient access and hospital and pharmacy supply.
The off-patent medicines industry mobilised all efforts to ensure medicines continued to be developed, transported and supplied, in collaboration with the European Institutions, throughout the crisis. Our industry notably massively scaled up production and put in place cooperation mechanisms to tackle the colossal surge in demand for medicine