Conference
Economic Issues of the New Spanish Medicines Law
- Date:
- 29 Mar 07
- Venue:
- Madrid
- Host:
- Medical Economics, with the collaboration of Fundacion AstraZeneca
- Outline
- Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz was invited to take part in this Seminar, to talk about “Funding and price regulation of medicines in the Spanish National Health Service”.
- Full Description
- Jorge acted as a discussant to Prof. Jaume Puig, a Spanish health economist. In his reply, Jorge focussed primarily on three issues touched upon by Prof Puig: how countries with decentralised health care systems with national agencies carrying out health technology assessments (HTA) of new medicines have implementation problems at a more regional level; the importance of having a high quality agency carry out these HTAs; and the use of cost-effectiveness thresholds.