Therapeutic areas with analogue competition


When several medicines with similar clinical effects are available on the market, there is an opportunity for analogue competition. This takes place through the Danish Medicines Council preparing treatment guidelines and Amgros conducting tenders.

Click here to read more about our tendering procedures
When multiple medicines with similar clinical effects are available on the market, there is an opportunity for analogue competition. This takes place based on treatment guidelines and any cost analyses conducted by the Danish Medicines Council.

Based on the Danish Medicines Council’s treatment guidelines, including the clinical comparison framework and any cost analysis, Amgros carries out tenders.

Read more about the tendering process here.

The results of the tenders form the basis for the Danish Medicines Council to prepare a medicine recommendation for a specific therapeutic area.


The recommendation is published on website of the Danish Medicines Council.


The process

We have drawn up a figure that shows the process for therapeutic areas.

 

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Photographer: Anne-Li Engström

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Therapeutic areas with analogue competition

Price negotiations and tendering

Amgros is responsible for the procurement of the majority of medicines used in public Danish hospitals. In addition, we negotiate prices for selected medicines for the primary healthcare sector.

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Therapeutic areas with analogue competition

Pharmaceuticals

Danes are living longer. And we can treat more diseases, because new and better drugs are entering the market all the time. This is good. But it’s expensive. Therefore, it is important that we are at the forefront of market developments.

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Therapeutic areas with analogue competition

Efficient changes of medicines

Amgros works closely with the regions - hospital pharmacies, pharmaceutical committees and clinical pharmacologists - to ensure that new medicines get into use rapidly as standard treatment at hospitals - and thereby get to patients quickly too. Together, we also ensure that the regions can reap the savings as soon as possible because the medicine will have been through our national tendering procedure.

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Trine Maria Roed

Team Lead

I'm responsible for managing and ensuring priorities so that we align tendering procedures in collaboration with the Danish Medicines Council. The team are the drivers of tenders for medicines included in processes at the Danish Medicines Council.