Time Is Running Out For Industry To Prepare For Brexit, Firms Begin to Feel Staffing Effects

Nearly 18 months after the UK voted to leave the European Union, pharmaceutical companies and regulators are still in the dark as to what kind of regulatory arrangements will exist between the two parties after Brexit takes place in March 2019.

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Brexit review: at the end of 2017 Scrip looks at how proceedings are affecting industry • Source: Shutterstock

Stakeholders are worried that a failure to ensure post-Brexit regulatory alignment between the UK and the EU could hit drug approvals, clinical research, trade and many other areas. It could also force the UK to set up its own regulatory regime in parallel with that of the EU.

Brexit negotiations have been proceeding at a snail’s pace since the UK triggered Article 50 in March 2017, formally signaling...

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