The Biosimilars Working Group is a key collaboration of diverse non-profit organizations, registered health charities, and health care advocacy coalitions who are dedicated to ensuring that good outcomes for patients are at the centre of health policy in Canada, specifically in the biologic medication treatment areas.
We create up-to-date and evidence-based educational material for patients and health care professionals as a basis to inform our advocacy work on behalf of the patients who we serve.
NEWS
The Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines (ASBM) launched a new microsite that contains several resources on forced switching. They highlight the differences in policy approaches between forced switching in British Columbia and (soon to be) Alberta in contrast to European countries who protected patient and physician choice, achieved biosimilar savings, and maintained market competition.
ASBM has also included a letter-writing campaign so that you can take part and help us preserve patient-physician choice with biosimilar treatments as other provinces consider similar policies to BC and Alberta. To learn more, visit www.noforcedswitching.ca.
Provincial Biologics Policies
The situation in Canada for originator biologic and biosimilar policy is rapidly changing. Learn more about what each province is doing. Click here.
Biosimilars Working Group Responds to Phase II of the BC PharmaCare Biosimilars Initiative
On September 5, 2019, the BC government announced phase two of its Biosimilars Initiative. Read the Media Release.
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