{"id":13428,"date":"2026-05-21T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13428"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:02:40","slug":"how-long-do-europeans-have-to-wait-for-new-pharmaceuticals-after-ema-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13428","title":{"rendered":"How long do Europeans have to wait for new pharmaceuticals after EMA approval?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is provided by EFPIA\u2019s annual WAIT indicator (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.efpia.eu\/news-events\/the-efpia-view\/statements-press-releases\/patients-in-europe-waiting-longer-for-new-medicines-as-inequality-grows-between-member-states\/\">press release<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efpia.eu\/media\/mnfdwzax\/efpia-patients-wait-indicator-2025.pdf\">report<\/a>).  First, we see a large decrease in the share of pharmaceuticals fully availbity, drive by a small increase in reduced availability but a much larger increase in the number of drugs that only have a limited availability.  Specifically, <\/p>\n<p> Historically full availability was the primary route of access, however, now\u00a0restrictions are commonplace.\u00a0<br \/>In 2025,\u00a0close to half (49%) are\u00a0not available\u00a0to patients in Europe \u2013 up from 46% in 2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>In 2025, 17% are\u00a0only\u00a0available\u00a0under restricted conditions\u00a0(6% in 2019).\u00a0<br \/>In\u00a02025, the share of medicines fully available on public reimbursement lists has declined\u00a0substantially to\u00a028%, down from 42% in 2019.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Wait times to access new treatments were highly variable across countries. <\/p>\n<p> The median time to availability is\u00a0<strong>532 days<\/strong>,\u00a0ranging from\u00a0<strong>56 days in Germany to 1,201 days in Romania<\/strong>\u2026An\u00a0<strong>88% access disparity<\/strong> between the highest and lowest European country.,,<\/p>\n<p>Delays to patient access have increased since the 2019 survey, with the average time to patient access rising from 504 days [2019 survey] to 597 days [2025 survey]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efpia.eu\/media\/mnfdwzax\/efpia-patients-wait-indicator-2025.pdf\">report<\/a> also breaks down access restrictions and delays by type of medicine (i.e., oncology, rare disease, other).  Interesting statistics throughout.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is provided by EFPIA\u2019s annual WAIT indicator (press release, report). First, we see a large decrease in the share of pharmaceuticals fully availbity, drive by a small increase in reduced availability but a much larger increase in the number of drugs that only have a limited availability. Specifically, Historically full availability was the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}