In these times of constant change, new pharmaceutical innovations and challenges for healthcare systems, it is particularly important the task of getting medicines to patients, promoting innovation and without losing sight of the efficiency and sustainability of the healthcare system in the long term. In recent years there have been significant changes in the process of assessing and pricing medicines in Spain, so that it is now appropriate to analyse the main strengths and weaknesses of the process in order to continue to improve and thus face the future with greater guarantees of success.The aim of this report is to analyse in depth the process of assessing and funding medicines in Spain and in other countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and to get the views of the main agents of the Spanish health system on the functioning of the system, in order to offer ideas for improvement, either on the basis of international best practices or stakeholders' opinions.
MethodologyThis project has been carried out in several stages.
1)Definition of the project by the Advisory Committee. First, the strategy and scope of the project was defined, with the help of an Advisory Committee made up of 5 experts in medicine assessment and pricing (Table 1).The committee provided guidance on the points on which to focus the search for information and the countries to be analysed, validating the evidence found.