What EU Governments Need To Do About Access To Affordable Medicines
Executive Summary
In a wide-ranging discussion at the recent European Health Forum Gastein, policy makers explored big-picture challenges and ideas of what governments should do to ensure access to increasingly expensive medicines as pressures grow on national health care systems.
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