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Cross-party call for May to guarantee cooperation with EMA post-Brexit

November 27, 2018 10:28 PM UTC

Conservative and opposition members of the U.K. Health and Social Care Select Committee have pushed Prime Minister Theresa May’s government for guarantees that the U.K. will be able to closely cooperate with EMA following the U.K.'s exit from the EU in March.

Secretary of State for Health Matthew Hancock told the committee that while no guarantees could be provided, the aim of the political declaration on the future relationship between the U.K. and EU was to keep the U.K. at the forefront of medicines regulation. He rejected comments from MPs who suggested the U.K. would be relegated to a middle-tier launch country “like Switzerland” where new medicines can take months or years to launch compared with first country launch timelines. ...