The top 5 issues in EU medicines policy for 2018

The present analysis looks at the key issues which dominate the EU medicines policy agenda during 2018 namely the proposed regulation on European collaboration on Health Technology Assessment (HTA), the ongoing discussion around the role of intellectual property related incentives in biomedical R&D, the future of initiatives such as BeNeLuxA, the role of the European Medicines Agency and the reaction of the pharmaceutical companies to the unprecedented debate around access to medicines in Europe.