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Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

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The French Sécurité Sociale controls the price of<br />

<strong>in</strong>novative drugs<br />

– France def<strong>in</strong>es the price of <strong>in</strong>novative drugs accord<strong>in</strong>g to the medical benefit provided<br />

by the <strong>in</strong>novative drugs.<br />

– The <strong>in</strong>term<strong>in</strong>isterial committee, the CEPS, negotiates the price with the<br />

pharmaceutical companies accord<strong>in</strong>g to the calculated level of improved medical<br />

service.<br />

– If it is high, the price reference is the one suggested by the phamaceuticals, tak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>to<br />

consideration the price <strong>in</strong> Germany/UK/Netherlands.<br />

– Tendency towards a better harmonisation of the <strong>European</strong> prices, with <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g<br />

pressures from the <strong>European</strong> Commission.<br />

« The French regulated price system for drugs rema<strong>in</strong>s a major limitation to the uptake and<br />

diffusion of the most <strong>in</strong>novative – and thefore the most expensive – treatments. »<br />

Former R&D director who worked <strong>in</strong> the pharmaceutical <strong>in</strong>dustry for 12 years<br />

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