New EU Bodies To Monitor Drug Supply In Health Crises

New pandemic-related responsibilities have been entrusted to the European Medicines Agency by a regulation published on 31 January. They include coordinating vaccine safety and effectiveness studies and setting up a European network of real-world data to help support health crisis preparedness and response.

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The EMA is to keep a closer eye on EU medicines supply • Source: Alamy

The European Medicines Agency says it expects its new drug shortages monitoring platform to be up and running by early 2025. The platform will play a key role in allowing companies and member state authorities to provide information on the supply of “critical” medicines in the event of future health emergencies such as a pandemic.

Also being set up at the agency is a Medicines Shortages Steering Group (MSSG) that among other things will draw...

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