1x02 - On the way to equitable access to medicines in Central and Eastern Europe

Conversations on the EU Pharma

Medicines for Europe

Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The second episode of Conversations on EU Pharma will focus on equitable access to medicines for patients and how the path to timely access to treatment can be challenging.

With a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the consequences of the pandemic on healthcare systems, our host and honourable speakers exchange their views on thoughtful policy reforms to ensure equitable access to medicines for all patients across Europe.

In this episode, our guests are Radu Costin Gănescu, President of COPAC (National Coalition of Organisations for Patients with Chronic Conditions of Romania) and Treasurer of the EPF Board (European Patients’ Forum) and Vera Pataki, Head of International Market Access, Egis and Chair of the CEE Network at Medicines for Europe.

Our host is Adrian van den Hoven, Director General at Medicines for Europe.

To learn more, consult our report “Removing access barriers in Central and Eastern Europe: How can we ensure equitable access to medicines for all European patients”?

Thank you for listening to us.

Please note that the episode was recorded before the Russia-Ukraine War, which is also impacting many Central and Eastern European countries.

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0:00.0	So, hello, my name's Adrian van der Noven.
0:10.0	I'm the Director General of Medicines for Europe, and I'm the host today for conversations on
0:16.0	EU pharma.
0:17.5	And I'm very pleased to have two very special guests for the discussion today.
0:23.0	First of all, we have Radu Ganescu, who is the president of the National Coalition of
0:28.2	Organizations for Patients with Chronic Conditions of Romania.
0:33.0	Radu is a well-known guest here in Brussels as he's also a member of the board of the European Patients Forum.
0:40.1	Radu, welcome.
0:41.1	Hello, welcome, and thank you for inviting me here.
0:44.0	Thank you.
0:44.8	And we also have Vera Bataki,
0:46.9	who's the head of international market access at Egus,
0:50.2	but she's also the chair of the Central and Eastern European Network
0:53.6	at Medicines for Europe.
0:55.2	Vera, welcome.
0:56.3	Thank you very much for the kind invitation and the opportunity to share our view regarding this important topic.
1:03.0	Okay, well, great.
1:04.3	So today we're going to be discussing a little bit more about access to medicines.
1:09.8	Focusing on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe. I think a lot
1:14.5	of people are aware that in Central and Eastern European countries, there's less spending on
1:20.5	health care in general on a per capita basis than in Western European countries. And therefore,
1:25.4	sometimes there are challenges for access to health
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