USA As debate rages over where to lay the blame for the USA’s drug affordability crisis, Katie Payne, senior vice president for strategic communications for the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) sets out a defence of the country’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry. Payne instead raises concerns with big drug companies’…
Italy Medtronic’s Michele Perrino, Regional VP North Western Europe & Italy, Cardiovascular Commercial Partnership WE, outlines the company’s change in positioning from medtech to healthcare technology and the central role of Europe in that shift. He also comments on the trend towards centralised hospital purchasing and the company’s ambition to contribute…
Belgium Francis Arickx, country coordinator of Belgium for the Beneluxa Initiative, introduces the project and its mission to help shape a unified healthcare policy approach between its member countries through activities such as horizon scanning and health technology assessments. Beneluxa is a first collaborative step towards more balance in the…
Pharma Sobi is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative therapies and services to improve the lives of rare disease patients and their families. Karel Fol, the country manager for Benelux shares the plans of the company for the Netherlands and Benelux, how Sobi is transforming its product portfolio,…
Pharma DHL Supply Chain Benelux understands the challenges life sciences companies face and has developed solutions to help overcome them. The Vice President and Commercial Director discuss how the services of the logistic provider are evolving to better adapt to the new needs of the industry and the business segments offering…
Pharma Menno Kok and Roel Kamerling, Director and CIO of Medical Delta, a life sciences, health & technology innovation cluster around Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam in the West of the Netherlands, explains how this network aims to stimulate economic growth and provide healthcare solutions by developing, transferring and implementing knowledge in…
Pharma Bert de Jong, General Manager Benelux at Genzyme, discusses the solutions Genzyme is offering to patients suffering from rare diseases and MS in the Benelux and how these treatments add value overall to society, as well as the company’s changing role in the Sanofi organization with the addition of the oncology and…
chronic pain Bene Farmacêutica was established in 2009 to expand the supply and presence of Bene-Arzneimittel in Portugal, having already sold products in the country for several decades. The affiliate’s managing director, Frank Tischler, outlines Bene Farmacêutica’s entrance into Portugal and discusses the importance of adding value to brands in an environment…
Boehringer Ingelheim Benelux Can you illustrate to our readers the company’s main milestones and key achievements since you took the reins four years ago? In the last years we have experienced a period of strong growth for the company based on the portfolio which we had. Today, however, following a strong focus on…
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee To begin, would you please give a brief introduction to the PBAC? The PBAC is a statutory committee of government first developed in Australia in the 1940s, which advises the Ministry of Health and Ageing as to what drugs will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The Minister…
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