UK access scheme the 'key piece in the jigsaw' for life sciences

3 November 2017

The UK government has announced a new fast-track route into the National Health Service (NHS) for breakthrough medicines and technologies.

Uptake of medicines in the UK can currently be too slow, Health Minister James O'Shaughnessy said as he unveiled the scheme, under which the selected breakthrough products will receive a package of support, allowing firms to accelerate clinical development and gain a fast-track route through the NHS’s approval processes.

“Today’s new measures will not only benefit patients by improving how quickly and easily we can get innovative products from the lab to the bedside, but will guarantee future collaboration between the life sciences sector and the NHS post-Brexit – benefiting the British economy and creating jobs, “ Lord O’Shaughnessy added.

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