The steering group of the Nordic Pharmaceuticals Forum met in Stockholm on May 7th 2024 to discuss Nordic collaboration in the medicines area, as well as future cooperation in the forum. An important subject during the meeting was adressing the need to clarify additional activities and goals for the Nordic Read more…
Photo: Anne-Li Engström As a member of the alliance, the Nordic Pharmaceuticals Forum will help advise the European Commission on the supply of critical medicines. The medicines market is global and fragile, and both short- and long-term supply problems are occurring with increasing frequency. These challenges are very difficult to Read more…
Photo: Anne-Li Engström Iceland, Norway, and Denmark have just announced yet another joint Nordic tendering procedure. Because of global problems with increasing resistance to antibiotics, this time the countries have included specific criteria to combat such resistance. Iceland, Norway, and Denmark are struggling to secure supplies of certain medicines. This Read more…
The EU authority, HERA, has visited the Nordic Pharmaceuticals Forum to learn about how the Nordic countries organise tendering procedures and about their close collaboration to secure supplies of medicines in the Nordic countries. HERA is the EU’s health emergency preparedness and response authority, and their visit with the Nordic Read more…
The purchasing organizations behind the Nordic Pharmaceutical Forum have now approved common guidelines and criteria for joint price negotiations on new medicines. The goal is more favorable and sustainable prices. And that the medicines reach the patients faster. We’ve done it before. And we will do it again. Joint Nordic Read more…
The world is changing, and the Nordic Pharmaceutical Forum is following suit. Members from the forum’s five countries are now launching a new strategy to strengthen objectives and cooperation in the pharmaceutical area. Much has changed since purchasing organizations from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark founded the Nordic Pharmaceutical Read more…
The Nordic countries are putting the finishing touches to a joint strategy for how they can together help secure supplies of hospital pharmaceuticals for the five countries. In the seven years that the Nordisk Lægemiddelforum (Nordic Pharmaceuticals Forum) has existed, it has held two common Nordic tendering procedures. It has managed to Read more…