The joint action on ensuring security of medicines supply will be supported by the EU regulators’ shortages task force, which is to track efforts to coordinate member state activities on the supply and availability of medicines.

Companies using the European Medicines Agency’s drug safety services will be paying more from 3 October.

The UK drugs regulator says it needs to make sure that companies do not “deprioritize” GB approval applications while a new “international reliance framework” is being developed.

Delegates at the European Health Forum Gastein outlined the challenges facing an international effort to improve access to costly new medicines across the World Health Organization’s European region, insisting that the key issues had to be addressed “collectively” and without “finger pointing.”

The joint action on ensuring security of medicines supply will be supported by the EU regulators’ shortages task force, which is to track efforts to coordinate member state activities on the supply and availability of medicines.

Hundreds of videos have been sent in by people interested in contributing to the future pandemic treaty proposed by the World Health Organization.