Programme
9.30 – Coffee and fruit
Session 1: Wider costs of investing in medicines
10.00 – Opening remarks and welcome
10.15 – Trade-offs in paying for new drugs in health systems: evidence from the English NHS
Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics)
5-minute comfort break
11.20 – Cancer drug assessment: integrating clinical benefit, innovations and economic impact
Sirkku Jyrkkiö (Turku University Hospital, TYKS)
12.00 – Light salad buffet offered in Tieteiden talo
Session 2: Perspectives relating to patients and affordability
13.20 – Are patients and the public getting the information they need to make informed treatment decisions?
Courtney Davis (King’s College London)
14.00 – Financial burden of medicines for patients
Katri Aaltonen (University of Turku)
14.20 – Coffee and buns
Session 3: Barriers to robust evidence and possible solutions
14.50 – The evolution of prices of medicines after the introduction of risk-sharing contracts in Finland
Klaudia Kaustiala (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kela)
15.10 – Pitfalls of effectiveness evidence and how to avoid them?
Neill Booth (Tampere University)
15.30 – Closing remarks