Joint Tendering Creates ‘Attractive Nordic Market’

But Initiative Shows Supply Challenges Remain For Small Markets

Joint tendering among Nordic countries can help reduce shortages of older, off-patent medicines. 

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Collaboration On Tendering Can Reduce Medicines Shortages

A cross-country collaboration on tendering to tackle medicines shortages has proved successful for Norway and Denmark. However, the same success does not seem to have been replicated in Iceland, where the market’s small size proved problematic for manufacturers, according to statements from procurement bodies in the three countries.

“The road to the first joint Nordic tendering procedure has been long, but the destination has always been clear: to...

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