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The Nordic Medicine Gap

Nordic health ministers are joining forces over medicines that hospitals depend on, confronting a supply problem hidden behind the region’s responsible antibiotic use.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 9

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Finland and Sweden can expand their participation in joint Nordic medicine purchasing under an agreement signed on November 3. The first planned step is a shared tender for hospital antibiotics.

The agreement broadens cooperation already involving Denmark, Iceland and Norway, according to the Nordic Council of Ministers an…

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