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Maciej Miłkowkski: The economic availability of medicines has definitely been improving over the last few years

MedExpress Team

Piotr Wójcik

Published July 28, 2023 09:59

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- The availability of innovative medicines, which patients receive free of charge, is increasing, along with full qualification for these therapies and complete monitoring of the patient during them, Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski said during Thursday's meeting of the Parliamentary Health Committee, dedicated to the topic of the country's drug security. Maciej Miłkowski also addressed the issue of shortages of particular drugs on the market and the question of domestic production.

In his speech, the deputy health minister noted that for several years more therapies have been successively made available through drug lines.

- We issue new reimbursement decisions every two months to increase this availability. In recent years, we have often changed the content of drug programs to be in line with European guidelines and the characteristics of the medicinal product. We also often expand these reimbursement indications, in accordance with current medical knowledge and not necessarily with the SmPC. This is particularly evident when we transfer drug availability to the chemotherapy catalog. Such expansion occurs ex officio, after evaluation by the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tarification and experts: national consultants and scientific societies," Maciej Miłkowski pointed out.

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