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Hospital pharmacists and regulators lead the way on shortages
EHA welcomes initiatives but calls for more focus on causes
Medicine shortages have a negative impact on the quality and cost of treatments and on patient access to the best possible care.
EHA’s advocacy for hematology continues
The EHA Board has recently approved five position papers which formulate EHA’s key lobbying priorities:
Support for hematology research in Horizon 2020 (and future EU research funding programs)
Access to treatment for patients with blood disorders
EU collaboration to reduce the prices…
EHA-funded study in The Lancet Haematology: Economic Burden of Blood Disorders in EU is €23 billion
In Europe blood disorders affect around 80 million people. The total cost of blood disorders consists of healthcare expenditure (€15. 6 billion), productivity loss due to illness and mortality (€5. 6 billion), and the costs of informal care (€1.
Read moreFirst Horizon 2020 Work Programme update – budget, and launch of FTI and innovation prizes
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Read morePosition of EHA on Access to Medicines
There are many factors that compromise patient access to medicine. First and foremost, for a drug to be available, one has to be developed.