Access to Essential Medicines
Prescription medicines are unaffordable for some patients in Europe, in spite of national reimbursement systems. This project, executed in 2009, profiled the existing strengths and potential improvements in three European reimbursement systems that could lower medicines prices. Two workshops were held with advocacy organisations, student associations and citizens in Portugal and Poland to conduct a joint analysis of the reimbursement system and develop policy recommendations. These workshops were an informative pilot exercise that brought together a mutli-national network of organisations monitoring national reimbursement policies and supporting widespread access to medicines.
12 November 2009 - Medicines in Poland Workshop Series: Improved Medicines’ Reimbursement. Read the workshop programme and event memo
15-16 October 2009 - Medicines in Portugal Workshop Series: Access and Reimbursement. Read the workshop programme and event memo.
Patients can not afford to pay for their medicines in some European countries, in spite of national medicines reimbursement systems.
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