A bill of the Ministry of Health provides for the creation of the Innovation Fund, through which patients will have faster access to innovative medicines that, although they have been approved by the European Medicines Agency, are delayed in circulating in Greece.
In the same bill, EOPYY will be able to utilise AI systems for transparency and the control of pharmaceutical expenditures (e.g. prescriptions).
The Minister of Health, Adonis Georgiadis, states: “With the present bill we are taking a decisive step for the creation of a more modern, more fair and more effective health system. For the first time we establish the Innovation Fund, so that Greek patients obtain faster access to new and innovative therapies that until today were delayed in reaching our country.”
The same bill corrects a provision in a law of the Ministry of National Defence, which provides for the abolition of deferment of military service for resident or specialising doctors.
He adds that “we strengthen transparency and the control of pharmaceutical expenditure, we utilise the possibilities of artificial intelligence and new technologies in health and we proceed to substantial interventions for the improvement of the operation of hospitals and the supervised bodies of the Ministry of Health.”
Another provision of the bill provides for the automatic recognition in Greece by the Panhellenic Medical Association of specialties that Greek doctors have received in the United Kingdom. The same also applies to citizens of other countries of the European Union.
Meanwhile, the same bill corrects a provision in a law of the Ministry of National Defence, which provides for the abolition of deferment of military service for resident or specialising doctors.
Sources: Υπουργείο Υγείας, Καθημερινή
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