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

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Improved access to <strong>in</strong>novative drugs:<br />

from hospitals’ to private pharmacies<br />

• Innovative medications which are<br />

exclusively reserved for <strong>in</strong>-hospital use<br />

have become more accessible to<br />

outpatients<br />

– Development of home<br />

hospitalisation to cut hospitals’ costs<br />

– F<strong>in</strong>ancial agreement between the<br />

hospital’s pharmacy and<br />

pharmaceutical companies: order<br />

drugs at discounted price<br />

• Some drugs are still available only <strong>in</strong><br />

hospitals’s pharmacies (anti-<strong>can</strong>cer<br />

treatments, immunosuppressive agents)<br />

because of special storage conditions<br />

– Geographic <strong>in</strong>equalities<br />

– But becom<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly<br />

accessible <strong>in</strong> private local<br />

pharmacies s<strong>in</strong>ce 2005<br />

• Hospitals’ pharmacies <strong>can</strong> order specific<br />

<strong>in</strong>novative drugs for outpatients if no<br />

alternative treatments are available<br />

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