Medicinal products and price transparency: MEPs, experts discuss current issues

When: 25 January 2023, 14.30 – 15.30 CET
Where: European Parliament in Brussels, Spinelli building, room 3G3

Organised by the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions, the workshop will feature interventions by guests speakers, followed by a Q&A session with MEPs. The guest speakers and their topics are:

• Kaisa IMMONEN, Director of Policy, European Patients’ Forum (EPF), on: “Transparency of the EU pharmaceutical system” (TBC)
• Thomas ALLVIN, Executive Director Strategy and Healthcare Systems, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), on: “How and when can increased transparency improve access to innovative medicines”
• Dr Sabine VOGLER, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies, at the Austrian National Public Health Institute (GOG), Co-founder of the Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Information (PPRI) initiative, on: “Can transparency improve access to medicines? State-of-play of publication of medicine prices and other market information in European countries”

You can find out more information here, and follow the workshop here on streaming (live and vide-on-demand).