Europe – EMA and the EUnetHTA 21 consortium set priorities for their collaboration

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) 21 consortium have published a  joint work plan until 2023. The focus of the plan is to prepare, from a methodological and operational perspective, for the coming into application of the Regulation on Health Technology Assessment (EU) 2021/228 in January 2025 after a 3-year implementation period.

The work plan continues the close collaboration between EMA and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies in Europe, which began in 2010 through consecutive EUnetHTA Joint Actions of which the last one concluded in May 2021. This collaboration has demonstrated many synergies between regulatory evaluation and HTA along the lifecycle of a medicine and aims to facilitate patients’ access to medicines in the European Union…