Fund aims to deliver “most promising medicines” but may disincentivise collection of evidence, study finds
A fund set up by the UK government to speed up access to new treatments risks incentivising the development of expensive drugs with weak evidence of clinical benefit, a new study has found.
In June, the government launched the £340 million Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF) for pharmaceutical companies to purchase the “most promising medicines” and fast-track them to patients before a final decision from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which decides whether a drug or treatment should be made available through the NHS.
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