As soon as Zhengda Tianqing and Hengrui innovative drugs are approved, Liaoning policy will be released

Source: what e-medicine manager can see on May 22, 2018 is that under the environment of high-level policies constantly calling for promoting drug research and development, quality and efficacy improvement, and transformation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry, local governments have begun to take action On May 21, the centralized purchase network of drugs and medical consumables in Liaoning Province issued a document stating that all drugs newly approved for listing by the National Drug Administration from October 1, 2015 to April 30, 2018 (subject to the drug registration approval document, excluding the re registration approval document) and not participating in the centralized purchase of drugs in Liaoning Province can be declared for direct online purchase According to the document, the purpose of this action is to implement the spirit of the opinions of the general office of the people's Government of Liaoning Province on further reform and improvement of drug production, circulation and use policies, according to the implementation plan of Liaoning Province medical institutions drug centralized procurement (LWF [2017] No 27), which was determined by the office of Liaoning Medical Institutions drug and medical consumables centralized procurement leading group Work to be carried out as required In the aspect of drug bidding, Liaoning Province has always been the leading province In fact, on April 17, the office of the leading group for centralized procurement of drugs and medical consumables for medical institutions in Liaoning Province also issued another document, which also stipulates that a series of drugs can be directly purchased online, specifically including three categories: newly approved innovative drugs, generic drugs that pass the consistency evaluation of quality and efficacy, and generic drugs that are negotiated by the state 。 Among them, the time limit for newly approved innovative drugs to be listed is from January 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 Any innovative drugs newly approved to be listed by the State Drug Administration during this period can apply for direct online listing For generic drugs that have passed the consistency evaluation of quality and efficacy, the three batches of documents issued by the former State Food and drug administration that have been approved to pass the consistency evaluation of quality and efficacy of generic drugs, as well as the drugs that have passed the consistency evaluation according to the relevant provisions shall prevail At the same time, these drugs need to have not participated in the centralized procurement of drugs in Liaoning Province before The generic drugs of national negotiated drugs are those included in the notice of the Ministry of human resources and social security on including 36 kinds of drugs into the category B scope of national basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance, and the notice of the general office of the national health and Family Planning Commission on publishing the results of national drug price negotiation The generic drugs of these drugs do not participate in the drugs of Liaoning Province Products purchased in a centralized way can be directly linked to the Internet What we can see is that in the context of high-level policies calling for the promotion of drug research and development, the improvement of quality and efficacy, and the transformation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry, local governments have begun to take action After all, in the previous implementation plan of drug centralized procurement for medical institutions in Liaoning Province, there are only two types of products that can be directly purchased online, one is the drugs that are included in the national drug price negotiation, which implements the national negotiation price and directly purchases online The other is to produce and purchase drugs at designated points For these drugs, the national unified purchase price shall be implemented, and the direct online purchase shall be implemented On this basis, Liaoning Province will approve new innovative drugs, evaluate generic drugs through consistency of quality and efficacy, and incorporate generic drugs of national negotiation drugs into direct online procurement, which is not a small change in itself This time, it is a bold attempt to further relax the threshold to the new approved drugs within the prescribed time limit.