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UK drugs agency unveils ‘quicker’ post-Brexit approval process

     

New pathway will ‘reduce the time to market for innovative medicines’, government says

The UK government has launched a “fast-track” approvals process for new treatments so they can be brought to the market faster—in a similar way that approvals for Covid-19 vaccines were sped up.

The move follows the UK’s exit from the European Union, which saw the responsibility of licensing drugs and medical products transferred from the European Medicines Agency to the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

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