Vaccine debate at CEFI

Fascinating debate on vaccines with 266 registered participants and fantastic presentations by the speakers.
Final days for registration: Online conference ‘Deepening our understanding of vaccines in times of pandemic’

On 19 January 2021, CEFI will hold the online conference entitled Deepening our understanding of vaccines in times of pandemic. Registration is free of charge. Programme and registration
Two new issues of CEFI’s journal published

Two new issues of the journal published by CEFI are available: Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico issue 75 (October-December 2020). Comunicaciones en Propiedad Industrial y Derecho de la Competencia issue 91 (September-December 2020).
CEFI contributes to the debate on vaccines in times of pandemic

On 19 January 2021, CEFI will hold an online conference entitled Deepening our understanding of vaccines in times of pandemic. Programme and registration
Eventful days of regulation and legislation in the world of pharma and innovation

There have been some eventful days recently in terms of important pharmaceutical regulations and legislation: Community pharma strategy to which we dedicated a post on LinkedIn Proposal for a Data Governance Regulation. Re-use of certain public sector data, including health data, which is key to boosting biomedical research. RD on observational studies. Simplifying administrative procedures, […]
Global regulatory alignment on COVID-19 medicines and vaccines

Global action in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Joint statement by the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) and the World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the Spanish Medicines and Health Products Agency (AEMPS), with regulatory agencies adopting a series of measures to promote alignment on regulatory processes across all countries. Global collaboration, […]
Expert analysis on data protection

In the next issue of the Comunicaciones journal, CEFI is pleased to count on the expert opinion of Jesús Rubí Navarrete, Deputy Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and Rafael Garcia Gozalo, Executive Advisor and Head of the AEPD’s International Division, as they analyse the Guideline on the use of cookies in light […]
Improving access to therapeutic innovation

Natividad Calvente Cestafe, Director of Innovation, Training and Institutional Relations at the General Council of Pharmaceutical Associations contributes to a monographic issue of the journal Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico [Pharmaceutical Law Review] with a magnificent article on early access to therapeutic innovation, which is one of the greatest challenges faced by health systems and the […]
New issue of the journal Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico (Pharmaceutical Law Review)

Issue 74 (July-September 2020) of the journal Cuadernos de Derecho Farmacéutico is available online. Monographic issue ‘Spanish National Health System changes for innovation, efficiency and patient service’. Contents: CEFI position paper. Spanish National Health System changes for innovation, efficiency and patient service. CEFI Foundation Innovation for reconstruction in COVID times. Lourdes Fraguas Gadea Improving access […]
Draft Order updating the Price Reference System in 2020

The Ministry of Health has published Draft Order SND/ /2020, of, by which the price reference system for medicinal products in the Spanish National Health System will be updated in 2020. The text is available for consultation and comments on the Ministry’s website.
Spanish National Health System changes for innovation, efficiency and patient service

Amidst the current health, social and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and in a context conducive to reflection and debate with the creation of the Commission for the Social and Economic Recovery of Spain after Covid-19, CEFI has compiled a series of observations and/or proposals for change with the aim of contributing to […]
‘Next Generation EU’, the European Recovery Programme

The European Council has reached a historic agreement on a EUR 750 billion package for rebuilding the European economy following the COVID-19 pandemic: EUR 390 billion in direct aid and EUR 360 billion in loans. Spain will receive EUR 140 billion. It is cause for celebration that we have a budget settlement and funding to […]