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UK, Sweden Test Differing Antibiotic Market Models

But Both Seek Reward Mechanisms That Assure National Antibiotic Supplies

 
• By Sten Stovall

Sweden and the UK are conducting differing ‘develop and test’ programs to assess so-called ‘pull’ incentives in which an antibiotics innovator will be paid an annual fee in return for an access guarantee for anti-infectives. The projects have drawn keen attention from other countries. 

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One key difference between the new incentives programs being trialed by the UK and Sweden is that the UK approach is focused on paying for the added value of a new antimicrobial by delinking volume of sales from reimbursement, with the aim of incentivising the research and development of new antibiotics. The Swedish program is aimed at ensuring the availability of already approved and existing antibiotics to the Swedish health system. Another key difference is the Swedish program does not involve a health technology assessment of any new antibiotics, whereas the British approach does.

The two programs do share the goal of finding ways to maintain a secure access to effective antibiotics at justifiable...

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