Monday, 17 July 2023: Introduction to pharmaceutical systems and policies
- The pharmaceutical value chain
- Challenges for ensuring access to medicines around the globe
- Practical exercise
Tuesday, 18 July 2023: Pharmaceutical pricing
- Rationale for price regulation
- Toolbox of pricing policies for new medicines and for generic and biosimilar medicines
- Special topic: Implementing external price referencing - which is the best design?
- Pricing in the supply chain – How to remunerate wholesalers and pharmacies?
- Practical excercise
Wednesday, 19 July 2023: Reimbursement and procurement
- How to prioritise and select medicines for public funding? Introduction into reimbursement
- Pharmaceutical procurement (tools and experiences – e.g. with joint procurement)
Thursday, 20 July 2023: Addressing challenges in pharmaceutical policy
- High-priced medicines, shortages, lack of transparency and evidence, value assessments, HTA, managed-entry agreements, collaboration, horizon scanning, introducing price regulation, design of co-payment policies to reduce financial hardship, etc.
- “Cookbook” of pharmaceutical policy options
Please note that thematic input related to policy examples and experience will be, to a large extent, provided from European countries.
Speakers
Sabine Vogler (head of WHOCC)
.... and external speakers (e.g. WHO, experts, national representatives, etc.)