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How do we avoid disaster when exiting the European Medicines Agency? Making the most of Brexit in pharmaceutical regulation.
As the UK prepares to leave the EU, it must decide what path it is to take with a large number of regulatory and technical agencies who provide collaboration at the European level. In the case of pharmaceuticals, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) provides pan-European licencing for novel pharmaceuticals. Should the UK depart from the EMA system, this article highlights the loss to patients immediately (slower access to novel treatments), and in the long term by having no access to some novel products as companies choose not to launch in the UK. The lack of access then may also preclude the access to these treatments as generic medicines, causing harm far into the future. The other costs considered are the cost for duplicating the functions of the EMA, or the alternative of using the decisions of other regulators without input to decisions made. An alternative is then set out, of how the UK can prosper under 'Brexit', by remaining a member of the EMA, but accepting the decisions without political oversight (as currently happens with the European Commission). Additional freedom could be given to a UK regulator to accept decisions (where appropriate) from other agencies such as the Food & Drug Administration-further speeding access and making the UK a more attractive market. Such an arrangement would put the UK in a better position than the good position it is in currently. This would give patients (both now and in the future) the best access to treatment possible, and promote/attract an industry which employs (directly and indirectly) 500,000 jobs.
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